Last week a man brought back former Mobile resident E. O. Wilson's book Creation : An Appeal to Save Life on Earth and told me it was the best book he'd ever read, bar none. It's in the form of a letter to a pastor from a secular humanist (himself), about the importance of preserving all the different forms of life on earth. It gave me pause a little bit to think how much my father, who died at the beginning of last month, would have liked this book. I'm not really used to his going yet I suppose, because I keep seeing things and thinking "I'll have to tell Daddy about this". Anyway, I agree, anyone that can read should read this book, just like John Hershey's Hiroshima.