VENDOR PROFILE ASK A VENDOR THIS COLUMN IS A PLACE FOR DENVER VOICE VENDORS TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FROM OUR READERS AND STAFF. THIS MONTH’S QUESTION WAS SUGGESTED BY DENVER VOICE VENDOR RAELENE JOHNSON Q What are your hopes and dreams for 2025? A LANDO ALLEN Today, I don’t have a good feeling about my goals. With the VOICE almost closing down, Trump going back to the White House, and me not [accomplishing] my goals, I have to get something done this year, but I really don’t know where to start. I want to sell more Denver VOICE papers. I’ve got to start doing my music and art and want to save more money for my houseboat. I worry about Trump doing bad things that will kill my job. I just want to work hard and to get more going to stay safe. DENVER VOICE VENDOR JERRY ROSEN RAELENE JOHNSON For the next year, I hope and pray for peace for us in the USA and around the world. My wish is that everyone will find love and happiness. Let’s be kind and loving to each other. That will make all of our lives better. JERRY ROSEN My hope is to get more sales for the Denver VOICE, to be a better person in many ways, and to achieve much happiness in many ways. CHARLES SPRING To find a nice woman and start a long-term relationship now that I’ve finally got all the other aspects of my life in order. HUS WILLIAMS My hopes and dreams for 2025 are for God to continue to bless me, my family, and my loved ones, for my finances to keep increasing, and for nothing but positive people, energy, and opportunities to come into my life. RODNEY K. WOOLFOLK I hope and dream that I will finally receive my SSDI on January 14, 2025!!! EDITOR’S NOTE: WHILE THIS IS NOT A TYPICAL VENDOR PROFILE, WE WANTED TO PUBLISH THIS THOUGHTFUL POEM BY KENDALL HIGGINS, ONE OF JERRY ROSEN’S REGULAR CUSTOMERS. DEAR JERRY, THE MAN I SEE ON THE STREET SELLING PAPERS BY KENDALL HIGGINS Dear Jerry, I want you to know I see you Every month, selling papers Somewhere along Pearl Street I see you standing there Reclaiming your voice on a street corner Sharing what you are able to with the world It revitalizes me I don’t know who you are the rest of your days, but I see you every month Working Moving your life onward In the glimpse I get of you Selling papers Smiling I see someone deserving of love I don’t know what past versions of yourself You identify with, but In the one I see Inherent goodness shines forth So, thank you for sharing that Voice on the street corner You are a beacon Whose light ripples onward You remind me of the inherent goodness in humanity, The cruciality of continuing on Through you, I remember the world is deserving of more love, and how I can stand up on my own street corner To share my voice for that too 4 DENVER VOICE January 2025
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