Tim Harris
- Age: 48
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Libra
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: Executive Director, Real Change
- Location: Seattle : WA
About Me
“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.
