Let's meet other Brights, have some fun, and at the same time achieve something worthwhile! Besides enjoying the camaraderie, we will gather to put some of our ideas into motion - try to make some changes in our locale (e.g., in schools, libraries, and other civic institutions). The hub of the international internet constituency of Brights is in Sacramento. So, because of the locale, we have an opportunity to also work in sync with Brights Central to develop models for other groups Brights …

I'm here at Naomi's Coffee in beautiful Morgan Hill, drinking my Americano. On a casual search on my iPhone yellow pages app, within a 10-mile radius, I find over 60 churches and about 10 practitioners of alternative medicine. Sheesh! I did a search in meetup for a freethinking group, and the nearest ones are in Santa Cruz and San Jose. I figure there MUST be people in the Morgan Hill/Gilroy area who celebrate science, skepticism, and rational thought--People who aren't prone to believing there …