September 30, 2001

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  It's a busy few days; V-Day benefit Thursday night, Real Change benefit Friday night, and a SHARE/WHEEL benefit reading Saturday night. Parties!

  This little light of ours, We're gonna let it shine. This little light of ours, We're gonna let it shine. This little light of ours, We're gonna let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. Stand for human dignity, We're gonna let it shine. Stand for human dignity, We're gonna let it shine. Stand for human dignity, We're gonna let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. We'll get justice for the poor, We're gonna let it shine. We'll get justice for the poor, We're gonna let it shine. We'll get justice for the poor, We're gonna let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. Real Change is here to stay, We're gonna let it shine. Real Change is here to stay, We're gonna let it shine. Real Change is here to stay, We're gonna let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

  The second fundraiser of the week I got to go to for free, along with my sweetie Wes, was the big annual Real Change Party on Friday night. It was held in an historic home on Capitol Hill called Pragg House, that has a columned porch and woodwork and fireplaces and all sorts of neat stuff inside, and there were Seattle City Councilpeople and a King County Councilpeople and somebody running for Seattle City Council and an ex-governor and local literati and a whole bunch of people I knew and new folks I didn't and lots of fantastic food and everybody talking to everybody, and a local company, Jones Soda, made a special bottling for the event with the Real Change logo on the label, and we made $16,000 and we only had one speech. : ) Editor God Tim Harris thanked half of everybody in the world, described what we had been doing and what we were going to be doing, and then, in a totally uncharacteristic gesture for Tim Harris, led everyone in raising lighted candles and singing "This little light of ours." He even got choked up over it.

  This is the guy who writes the rather cynical "Classics Corner". ("The website that marks the end of Western Civilization.")

  It was an altogether remarkable evening.

  

  
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