Piotr Rajski's Blog

Image courtesy of Google Images Facing a six hour drive to Saskatchewan, not so long ago, and encouraged by my friend Mike's positive comments about the medium, I checked out from the local library, somewhat by chance, Robert Waggoner's audiobook, entitled "Lucid dreaming." I immediately got hooked up. Lucid dreaming can be defined as a dream, in which a dreamer is AWARE that he/she is dreaming. I had this kind of experience myself, so it was easy for me to relate to what Waggoner was describing. I once dreamt that I went to visit with my neighbor across the street in High Level, where we lived at that time. The visit was very pleasant, but at some point I noticed that his living room was opened straight into the street, without any walls. "This is not possible," I remember saying to myself, "I must be dreaming. And if I am dreaming I can wake up." This is exactly what I had done. After listening to Waggoner's book, I realized that my d...

I started watching impeachment procedures in the US House of Representatives, thinking that as a retiree, I could give it an hour or so. However, once I started I could not stop. I spent, glued to the TV, probably 5-6 hours on both Wednesday and Friday. The process itself is fascinating. Though quite adversarial, it impressed me how this can be done in an open and fairly respectful way. But I was most impressed by the people who testified - George Kent, Bill Taylor and Marie Jovanovich. Brilliant, focused, to the point, noble, people of integrity and courage. I was particularly impressed by the testimony of Marie Jovanovich, who was an object of a powerful smear campaign, while being US Ambassador to Ukraine, and who was personally attacked by President Trump. Though she appeared close to tears a couple of times, she withstood the pressure of the inquiry beautifully. I think America is lucky having the people of this format serving as her diplomats. Why do you care, one c...