Tim Harris
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Executive Director, Real Change |
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Introduction | “Being is becoming,” and if we’re not “becoming,” we’re probably not doing much “being” either. This blog was started in a half-assed attempt at self-excavation. I have at least two unusual personality traits. The first is that I’m abnormally comfortable with ambiguity. I can happily muck about in the gray areas for years on end. This is probably why I love Seattle. The other is that I have a completely unrealistic belief in my own agency, which I tend to act upon. This blog has changed my life in more ways than I ever imagined. As my job as ED of a activist newspaper sold by homeless people, my vision for organizing, my thinking as a teacher, my history as a working-poor loser turned middle-class “advocate,” and my life as a parent swirled about me, this blog has been a path toward the center. We live in dangerous times, and the seductions to an easy, half-lived life of anesthetized materialism are all around. I have come to understand that my work is to be a revolutionary, both out in the world and within myself, turning over what is old, rotten, stale, and repressive, and building for a future where we can all find happiness and have the things we truly need. |
| Favorite books | People's History of the United States, Ulysses (Joyce), Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus' History, Tell Them Who I Am, Spoon River Anthology, Slaughter House Five, Grapes of Wrath, Moral Man and Immoral Society, The Bible, Poor People's Movements, Planet of Slums, One Dimensional Man, Hell's Angels, Moby Dick, The Drowned and the Saved, Hunger, Where I'm Calling From, The Man with The Golden Arm, Ten Little Indians, Homage to Catalonia, anything by Euripides. |