CORE Recreation

"The essence of creation is recreation." — Richard Arnold Beattie, CORE Values

The story of creation, from the beginning, is the human mandate of "seeing the thing through new eyes." How does that look in your life? The balance of home, work, and identity is often clouded by what we make. What if the balance is to create daily, recreate daily — to serve, produce, and reach out with what you make? Not quantity, but the quintessential thing you were made to do.

The Market and Distribution

Farmers take what they produce to market. Writers, musicians, and artists do the same. The Farmer's Market, the Main Street Market — the fields are ripe with harvest and craftsmanship.

Start and Seed

In my creative practice, I am learning to find balance by being out in my community — recreation through chores like seeding, weeding, watering, and getting my hands dirty. Then I go back to the studio to write, voice, and produce. Walking, thinking, talking, reading, and doing bring out a bundle of ideas. The reworking of lines, chords, and melody is the kind of watering that makes a piece come to life. Adding a riff, a run, or a phrase is adding nourishment.

Pruning and Preparing

The core and integral parts of taking our unique palette — cutting, pruning, editing — can be painful. And yet, in rows and measurement, it is necessary to let the work breathe.

Harvest Time

There are always weeds and thorns among those who don't support the work of the farmers — the ones always wondering how much they are going to get paid, and then wondering why no one buys their airtime. In the end, they don't have a crop of good work. As Robert Burns writes, "It's coming yet, for a' that!" In the end, each year, family, friends, and neighbors will be there to enjoy perennial good fruit.

The CORE Group is planting original, traditional, and public domain songs, stories, and media in the hearts of those who listen. Email richardbeattie809@gmail.com or soundcenturyoriginals@gmail.com for a catalog.