Letter from the Editor
“With a wave she walks out the door*…”
Welcome to another day in paradise. Welcome to issue 45, the sixth issue of our seventh season and the final issue of 2005 – 2006.
Ars Gratia Artis- Art for Art’s sake.
So they’re always saying, but what I want to know is who is this Art anyway, and why does he get to make all the money?
For the past seven years, ADiP has been begging, borrowing, conniving and cobbling together a little compendium of articles about history, food, fishing, culture, community things to do and en general et cetera, loosely based on Mexico and my monthly amusements. And the reviews have been well, more or less…give or take a few high spirited debates on the value of getting ones’ picture in the paper… encouraging. And on a night like this, we’d like to say thanks. Thanks for supporting us, indulging us, and for all the nice things you say about the little dipper.
And if you’d like to say thanks, please do stop by one of our advertisers (or all of them, make a day of it!) and tell them you appreciate them. Buy their products or just say you saw them in another day in paradise, (they love that), because in a free publication—in the best case scenario—it is the advertisers that pay the bills. And there’s quite a few of them that have been right there paying for it, year after year for years and years. Cheers!
But like all exclusive clubs, there’s never enough members. Just ask any one of the numerous publications that come and go every year and they’ll tell you, publishing is a tough business.
Sometimes I feel like I am skipping and tripping through the daisies all alone, a delusional optimist who only sees what could be and should be, and just ignores what is. Dreamers we may be, but there is earth beneath the feet, a method to the madness. A manifesto in the malarkey: High quality promotion for high quality tourism. Tourism is the world’s largest industry, tourism is one of the few major industries that in and of itself does not deplete natural resources, tourism can be a powerful force for sustainable development. An economy based on responsible future minded tourism is a solid economy that can provide for its own (education, infrastructure) and succeed tremendously. That is just true, but the getting from point A to point B part, that’s where it gets complicated.
I have always thought, if you want to do something small, you can do it by yourself but if you want to do something great, you’ll need a lot of help.
(And if you want to be an idealist, you better have a lot of money.)
Until next time, Happy Happy Summer,
* Flood Goddess, “Night Drive Mantra,” Floaties for troubled waters, 1989.
