Hi Ken,
Saw you had an interest in poetry and thought you and others might like this:
Poetry
When words have no rules or regulations
And a sentence has no bounds
That is where the poet hides
Where truth can still be found
The word is mightier than the sword they say
When words are truly free
Poetry is the words of a poet
Then the poet has the power of Thee
There is a lesson to learn in poetry
A remedy and a cure
For poetry are words of freedom
And in freedom the truth shall set us free
What is the truth One wonders
In the phrase and phrases of a rhyme
The true poetry of a free poet
Will bring equality to All in Just time
For freedom is equality
Unity of not only mankind
The true words of a poets? poetry
Is the beautiful true Oneness of All kind.
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MJA

Where is the list of the teen reads that the rovering philosopher did? These sound great and I would like to have them so that I can recommend them to my niece.

I thought I might add my 2 cents on summer reading: As in general I think of summer reading as stuff you don't have to think too hard about while poolside or at the beach, I would recommend Alexander McCall Smith's Sunday Philosophy Club series. The protagonist is Isabel Dalhousie, the editor of an Ethics journal, the Review of Applied Ethics. While she is busy sticking her nose (in the nicest possible way) into other's people's business, she ponders the moral issues that these events call into question. Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, they are as cosy as having tea over an Agatha Christie novel...hmmm, maybe then they should be cold winter day by the fire reading instead...

I have three ssuggestions, immediately.
"The Undercover Philosopher" by Michael Philips is a revealing look into our thinking mistakes and, for example, shows decisively that most MD's do not think very well when it comes to what is suggested by false negative and false positive tests.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Kahneman will be one of the most important books ever, perhaps, and among other things indicates why the MD's Philips talks about do not do the hard thinking, the counter-intuitive thinking, necessary for proper handling of statistical fact.
"The Ratttle Bag" edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes is poetry that has tickled and delighted them--a fantastic offering alphabetical by poem title, hence close to random.