Dreamers and Men of Action

I confess when listening to Leonard Cohen’s “The Traitor” I love the lines “The dreamers ride against the men of action; oh, watch the men of action falling back.”

I also will confess that I identify with “the dreamers” in those lines, though I’m not sure that’s true anymore. But as a teen I was very much a dreamer, with my head in books or in the clouds. Many of the things I dreamed were air-fantasies and impossible and I didn’t even know it. Many others would be tragedies, not the utopia I...