CREATE Weekends: ORCHARD Planting

ORCHARD Planting

I have found that writing programs for a system, a product, or a service — that meaningful Acrostics can be a tool in memorization and an outline in presentations. Last week I published a piece that I use to CREATE Daily. CREATE represents my daily subjects and initiatives of the areas that I cover. On Monday I cover the Communities that I serve. Tuesday, Recreation. Wednesday, Education. Thursday, Arts and Media. Friday, Travel and Transportation. And the Weekend, Entrepreneurship.

Left Column — SUCCESS

In the Left Column on my task list is how I spell SUCCESS Daily: Story and Songs, Unique Palette, Collaboration, Cultivation of Ideas (Products, Services), Endeavors, Service, and Soul and Spirit.

Right Column

This weekend I want to give you my philosophy on planting Orchards. At this stage of my CREATE Daily work, I have realized that it is important to plant our most original and organic stories and songs as seeds that will grow perennial good fruit. While we read about passive income, there is nothing passive when our mission is to CREATE Daily. That goes for journalism, art, and music creation. Recording is the second piece of planting an ORCHARD. While I am a recording artist, I am first a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Recording daily and producing daily on guitar and voice is a reference — and sometimes the minimalist, Bruce Springsteen Nebraska method — that is releasable. Getting it down from the start produces good fruit in our orchards.

Cultivation and Curation

The "C" in ORCHARDS stands for both cultivation and curation. As Pete Seeger liked to say, Folk Music is "Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." In that context, and with the latest crackdown on cover songs in public places, I have made it part of the CREATE Daily mission to write something new daily, to interpret, perform, and record something traditional — the songs in public domain — and to add a blues tune to my library each day. To curate and cultivate is a renewable resource.

HEALTHY — HARVEST — HOMESTAND

There are so many who tell me that I should quit or retire. Yet I have more energy and fewer distractions now that I continue to CREATE Daily and sing every day too. To experience the harvest and homestand of music and lyrics, articles and books — and to perform, produce, and present better than I did when I was supposed to be in my prime, in my community, on my own terms, and for people who need that healing touch of words and music — makes me hopeful that this work will survive.

Artistic Attributes Advances

When it runs in the family, it grows next to the river and reaches for generations. Taking the reel-to-reels of Folk Heroes, Musical Theater, and Broadcasts — and staying one step ahead of Technological Advances — is more satisfying than hearing my songs played on air, online, and on stage. Good fruit lives. The bad stuff, the killer weeds, burns.

Renewable Resources

If what I leave behind becomes a continued renewable resource of inspiration to family, friends, and neighbors, I have managed to work at what I love to do, and I am thankful in doing it. I never wanted to form a "Tribute Band." I never wanted to be an imitation. I always wanted to be original, authentic, and real. A renewable resource.

Directive — Distributed — Dividends

Create Daily. Produce Daily. Distribute Daily. It has never been a job. It has always been meaningful work. And it corresponds with SUCCESS. And it aligns with QUALITY in the Framework. We will take that further next week on CREATE Weekend. Richard Arnold Beattie is working with Entrepreneurs in Colorado through the regional chapter of the Leadon Family Foundation. Be part of the TAG Team (Thinking-Acting Group) and the EAT Street (Entrepreneur Answer Team). It is a Board that never gets Bored! Email: richardbeattie809@gmail.com