drinking the sand

when people in search of connection find themselves in the desert

I think about leadership a lot these days. And I’m often reminded of the scene from The American President, in which Michael J. Fox and Michael Douglas go toe-to-toe over what people of capable of in the absence of leadership.

“People are so thirsty for [leadership],” Michael J. Fox says, “they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they …