CREATE The Heartbeat of Community

Many years ago Chevrolet began an advertising campaign called "The Heartbeat of America." Obviously it was successful and the idea carries on today. The hard truth about our love affair with the frame that is designed with the combustible engine is like the Joe Camel in cigarettes. The allure and mystique is killing us. Driving back into our community it is a fact that climate change is causing both visible and invisible long term effects for our time on earth. As I walk my mountain valley property, and count and pick up the cigarette butts - I feel a raging anger in me and when I realize that the people who are putting the fires out are the ones who carelessly dispose of the cigarettes on my property my rage turns to sadness. When my peace of mind is disturbed by an attitude of lawlessness and turbo engines rising above the sound barrier - I am frustrated. When long term families in our valley take to podcasts and spew hate for neighbor and disdain for the freedoms they vow to fight for - I choose to ignore them and take responsibility to create life-giving economics, environment and education to people like them - since they are the ones who need the most help with their mental and physical health. I take the responsibility to CREATE The Heartbeat of Community.

Only You and Me

As I look at the mushroom cloud on the other side of Hardscrabble Pass - I think of another iconic spot - Smokey Bear - "Only you can prevent forest fires." Me? "Yes you." That is the CORE of our Heartbeat. Community Organizations for Responsible Entrepreneurship. Me? "Yes you." What can I do? "CREATE Heartbeat." In leading a musical life - creating a heartbeat in the communities I serve is something I can do. CREATE Everyday, take responsibility for my habits. Be encouraging and say "yes" to being involved in our valley and the hour radius around it. We don't need influencers - as social media tries to tell us. We need kindness, kinetic energy that writes, produces and shares communications. We share stories and songs - that creates The Heartbeat and the Soul Music of the Human Condition.

Redefining Rich

I just finished reading a book by an Agrarian Entrepreneur, Shannon Hayes. "Redefining Rich - Achieving True Wealth with Small Business, Side Hustles and Smart Living." The integrity of our home life and family, our meaningful and soulful work, in our communities, in defining who we are, what we are and do and where we are for the time we are here and what we leave - is responsible entrepreneurship. We do not need to occupy Wall Street, we need to CREATE a Life Serving and Sharing Economy. "By virtue of putting down roots we build equity and control of our cost of living," Shannon writes. Our marketing is community connection. Our harmony and health is a direct reflection of the health of the land. The Heartbeat and Soul Song and Story.

I can say "Yes" to those who I love and who loves us - and I say "No" to those who market fear. Love is a motivator, fear is a distraction.

People often want a description of the music I write and perform. "Is it Rock and Roll, Folk, Blues, Country, Jazz or Musical Theater?" The answer is "Yes and No." It is best defined by the rhythm of the morning, the heartbeat of the soul. It is what my mother liked to call "The Rhythm of the Morning." Every story that I write and tell has a rhythm from the Heartbeat of my soul. Every column has a song. That is a Holistic Picture with Integral parts and how we are connected. Today the quintessential qualities are what CREATE Daily is about. If you love it, subscribe, buy the Musical Audio Books or take lessons, join the Breakthru News Team. You can always sing along! email richardbeattie809@gmail.com.

Heartbeat and Soul

Music and Lyrics by Richard Arnold Beattie

While the geese duck and dance and the herd has advanced

Nothing to chance - in our choices

While our feet - know the way, of the path that we pave

Romance doesn't dance to outside voices - we sing in Harmony - you and me

Refrain

and whether we are standing on or sitting on a rock,

the manicured lawns or the life giving crops

Fields of grain and wheat

Fields of Mercy are Sweet

in Victory or defeat

it is our heartbeat

Heartbeat and soul is beyond the Rock and roll

it is the role of our life

Heartbeat and soul - it is all that we control

as a husband and a wife

the soul of our life

and the stories told

are the Heartbeat - of the Soul

Eventually - you'll be totally free

and someday they will see value

to our calling

Create - Practice - Love

it is what we are made of

the joy on the journey is forming

in the faith and the belief

of the Heartbeat (refrain)

The Rhythm of the Morning

is the Heartbeat of our Souls

The Rhythm of the Morning

is our Heartbeat.

Richard Arnold Beattie

Westcliffe, Colorado

July 20, 2026