A Sports Update

A Sports Update Somewhere Beyond Athletics:

             When you can think with one eye closed and your arms tied behind your back

              it's hard to ever get yourself to take up the matter of consciousness.

For the "talent" portion of the competition, one man came out wearing a full‑skirted, lavender, off‑the‑shoulder gown, which, when the runway lights were lowered, became luminous, and around the hem revealed the message:  "I may be wrong, but I think I'm marvelous, and when you're as marvelous as I am how could you ever be wrong?"  The judges however disqualified him later in the "High Diving Humility Round."  He's threatening to sue.

Some foreign visitors on a "Mystical Tourist's Tour" stopped long enough for one of them to ask what this had to do with anything serious and meaningful?  And being uncertain thereof, another of them quickly made a snapshot of the whole episode to take back with them to study later. Which, based on the home folk's ultimate reaction to the photo's existence, and professed purpose, proved even more uncomfortable to the travelers than their original uncertainty.  "How true, how true, and now if you'll look out the port side of the boat, you'll notice again how difficult it is to make conclusive sense of the local terrain if your mind is otherworldly.  Oh yes, snacks will be served later."

A sane, stable mind is always super obsequious toward itself. 

It must be!  In case no one else is.

Every ordinary person who once rebelled was a potential mystic.  So what happened?

J.