Although I do not watch sports regularly, I usually catch at least some of the Super Bowl (particularly the halftime show (although this year's show was rather mediocre)).  I'm not the only one.  Despite the well attested research that playing professional football can do significant damage to players' brains, and despite the NFL's curious tax exempt status, people continue to watch the Super Bowl.  It's not a football game; it's a party!


     I often wonder what our many animal friends think about the sight of that many people glued to their television sets for over four hours, eating, talking, laughing.  Whatever are those human beings doing?
     Simply being, I guess, human beings, magnificent, glorious, frail, intelligent, self-conscious and incomplete sentient beings availing themselves of the only existence they will ever have on this planet.
     Therein lies the puzzle.  Where else will we find such an intriguing combination of will, tenacity, folly, and determination?  Is this God's intention or is this evolution's result?  Either way, it's nothing anyone could have predicted:  life's essence eludes us unless we can see beyond it.