As I was reading an article in the NYT on Russian Peat Fires, I could not help notice the remark referring to Vladimir Putin as ..."taking to the skies to serve as co-pilot of an amphibious firefighting jet...on a dive-bombing run over a burning forest in central Russia, though he has no known pilot training." No pilot training? Really?
How often we create persona's for ourselves or project them onto others as we deem fit. It is not only politicians who hold high the ability to be alchemists. Can we see the peat beyond the smoke?