Editor's Note: The Buskers and Listing and Soused and Befuddled
Friday, January 1, 2010 at 04:11PM Published January 2010 Vol. 14 Issue 1
by Tim Covi
I was caught a little off guard the day before going to print with this issue. I went for a quick walk to get some air with Amelia, our executive director. We were running between banks downtown, and within five blocks four people asked us for money.
Don’t be silly; that’s not what caught me off guard.
The first couple we met asked with a bit of drunken flare. Long, ambling prose providing the details of where from and where to and what’s in between. And that’s alright by me. I’m not offended by a little alcohol. I’ve got time for a story. A little further along, another man just kind of listed around the corner of a building and into my path, half ready for rejection from the go. I think he was looking past me and behind him in the same moment, remembering that barely anyone says yes and prepping for the next ask. Further down a couple was busking, picking a banjo and stomping a tambourine at the north end of skyline-park, a blue-grass melody pitched against a crisp wind calling out for greenbacks and silver dollars. And a fourth, god bless her, was vending the Denver VOICE.
It’s a brisk day. My scalp is getting a little cold in the wind as I carry my money from one place to another, like a highly advanced squirrel with rudimentary assets: checking, savings, credit. Oh the credit! Who invented that nightmare?
We stopped to talk to the Denver VOICE vendor. We hadn’t met before, so Amelia and I introduced ourselves. A stack of papers tucked beneath her left arm, bag swinging by her waist, a folded paper in her right hand while struggling with a cigarette and a light, she was a picture of everything at once. She was excited and grateful, practically brimming over with pride at her sales, and wonder at the fact that she’s able to do it. She told us sometimes she has a hard time because she’s shy. It’s not easy for her to just walk up to people and talk, let alone ask to make an exchange, ask to give someone a paper, ask for a donation. She talked about how she’s really impressed with the VOICE, that she always tells people what a good paper it is.
You could see her sincerity. And later in the day, as I sit writing this, thinking about the buskers and listing and soused and befuddled; I think of about her and I am totally and completely humbled. I’ve been working here almost two years, and I get focused on journalism as an editor. I get focused on my piece, which I love. But it’s also nice to get pulled out of that tunnel to see the impact of this particular media model.
So on behalf of all the hard working VOICE vendors, I’d like to thank our readers and donors who have supported and embraced this project throughout 2009. It was an amazing year. Vendors distributed close to 17,000 papers in our peak month, and have averaged close to 15,500 per month since the spring, and the paper just keeps getting better!
January 2010, Tim Covi, editor's note in Editor's Note
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