Dissonance

Essays
Written By Nathan Box

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I see the good in all and the worst in most. I am an anarchist raised by conservative Republicans. I am a hippie raised by evangelical Christians. I am a carnivore with a vegan brother. I am an ideological pragmatist. I am an emotional empiricist. There is one reality and many interpretations. I am a capitalist who supports labor unions. I am a heterosexual man who believes in the freedom of all to express his/hers/or their own truth. I see the value in a benevolent dictator and in a direct democracy. I believe in the welfare state and rugged individualism. I see truth everywhere and in nothing at all. I think everything matters in the least meaningful way possible. We are all a product of our environment, and yet a product of a predetermined genetic lottery. We have absolute freedom, and yet everything is predetermined. We all have the right to live our own truth, but the truth may be rigid and inflexible. I am a principled non-dualist. I am an introverted extrovert. I am a dogmatic, agnostic and atheistic Christian. I am within the set that includes no other sets. I am an army of one. I am the unmoved mover. I wish I could choose a side, but then I would cease to be in the middle, cease to be in the flux, cease to be that which makes me who I am: the most committed of all fence straddlers.

-Guthrie Crull

Nathan Box
Hello! My name is Nathan. I've always believed I would meet that special someone in one of two places; either a record store or a book store. Maybe I need to amend? I moved to Seattle in February of 2011 from Oklahoma City (Try and not hold the Sonics/Thunder thing against me). I knew I wanted to work for a nonprofit and go to grad school. Within a couple of months, I was doing both. During the day, I work as a Fund Developer and Community Relations Manager for a nonprofit in Kent and at night I try to stay as busy as possible volunteering, trying new restaurants, finding hidden bars and exploring Seattle. The past few years has been both terrifying and exhilarating. I have done things on my own I didn’t think were within my capability. I love being outdoors. On any given weekend, I can be found hiking, on a road trip, volunteering, at a museum, seeing a movie (I see a lot of them). I am passionate about nonprofit work. I feel called to leave a mark on this world. Nothing against those who enjoy making tons of money, I just need to know I am making a difference.
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