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Create an Open Organic Campus

With the drought we are facing this summer and another graduating class behind us, a new tourist season begins on Main Street. We honored those who made the ultimate sacrifice with Memorial Day observances, and we thought about those in our communities and families. It brings into focus how difficult it is to make adequate, sustainable choices — and what that means for our little towns in the big mountain valley. A Home-Work-Community One thing is sure: we all need to make sacrifices to sustain

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The Homestand Journal - Perennialism of Good Fruit

Ben Franklin wrote, "Good Fences make good neighbors." That was true for land markers in first-century America, and it is true 250 years later — although not for neighboring. For landscaping and xeriscaping. The local ecosystem is being destroyed by an overpopulation of deer. Good fences keep deer from destroying good acreage. Welcome to the Homestand Family Journal, a place where we can have authentic conversations on a different approach to community, recreation, education, arts, transportatio

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Introducing the Homestand Journal

This morning our Celtic Mountain Band drove to the Spanish Peaks Veterans Home to play both Americana and Celtic Music for the residents. Claudia Morris presented a banner marking the 250th Anniversary of our existence as a country and I led the group with America the Beautiful. Since this is a Holiday, I want to take the opportunity to start a second column at both Medium and with My Local Press. The new column is called The Homestand Journal based on Aguarian Philosophy of a local authentic

about 1 month ago

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, Entrepreneur

about 2 months ago

CREATE and Educate Community

We were traveling a few days last week and I had the opportunity to eat slowly, look around and even drive a Hybrid car around the Napa Valley in California. We have been doing a major reset at home, through work and in community and I took time to read a book by Wendell Berry called "What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth." In my work as a writer and producer, I had read the story about Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska," and the idea that minimalist production and performance is organi

about 2 months ago

CREATE Communications in the Valley

Richard Arnold Beattie is the host and producer of "Folk Heroes" on KLZR and Community Radio. As the Founder, President and Curator of Sound Century Academy of Recording Arts, Beattie remasters vintage recordings from Musical Theater, Broadcasts and concerts from The Denver Folklore Center and Harry Tuft Collection. As a writer, singer,songwriter and guitarist, and an early concert hall manager at Swallow Hill, He has long been associated with Harry Tuft. In the valley, the songwriter is known

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CREATE Space

I am traveling this week and discovering the beautiful wonderment of Napa, California. My wife and I are celebrating our 46th Wedding Anniversary. Our classroom of economics, ecological and education through history, family and heritage mixed in with entrepreneurial experience. In Travel and transportation we are renting a Toyota Camry Hybrid. Both fit our goal of economic and ecological partnership. I am reading Wendell Berry's "What Matters?" essay and finding solace in how well we are bein

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Orchards in Education

I am addicted to inspiration. This is a problem that I need to address it with my community because inspiration is contagious. Yes, I am a recovering singer- songwriter and guitarist who majors in igniting the Creative Spark in myself and others. If I have inspired you and that has offended you I apologize. If I have exhausted you with hope and involvement-my bad. The systematic Creative process starts with hope and moves to peace. It moves forward to love and recycles joy in making things. Or

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CREATE Orchards in Recreation

This afternoon I will be meeting the Custer County School Board as I take over as President of Valley Park Recreation and Youth Center. It coincides with my CREATE Daily column for Tuesday which is geared towards Recreation. Originaly Organic It was thirty years ago that the late Stan and Irene Francis asked me to direct the programs at Valley Park and Recreation. And I brought in community events that had all ages create and recreate, arts and media, excursions around town at the Library a

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CREATE: An Orchard System

Create, Produce and Distribute is not only for those in the media space. It can be used by entrepreneurs in financial, technical, health care, and education. It can always be used in business-to-business settings or in developing products and services. CREATE — Originate Organically Creative planning and surveying. Looking, planning and choosing suitable land, planning irrigation, soil, trees, and climate. There is a prelude stage in budgeting, understanding what kind of fruit and trees to cul

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CREATE A Musical Life

It started in a bedroom on the North Shore of Long Island. A six year old boy staring at the revolution of a small turntable. What was going through his ears was not early rock and roll or the British Invasion. Though the recording happened about 50 minutes away at Columbia Records. Sixty years later, the boy walks along the orchard of a musical life. The record player was traveling at 33 and a third RPM. The voice was a boy, not too much older than him. The recording was the original cast alb

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CREATE Endeavors in Living Well

There is an organization in my little town and big valley called Landing Well. It focuses on the welfare of neighbors helping neighbors, in the time when we are fortunate enough to be getting older. It seems to me that in order to land well, it is best to learn well and live well when we are young. Even when we have not, it is good to know there are people watching out for us as we come in for a landing. This week I had the opportunity to present my CREATE Daily products, services and endeavors

2 months ago

CREATE and ReCREATE Community 2026

In our little town, in our big valley and in recent memory we have begun to take recreation for granted. Maybe it is a passive thing- that we are spectators in our community, fans of hometown teams, politicizing our public schools and school boards, not good enough to be artists or writers, singers or dancers, too old to walk, take the bus or plan a trip, or too strapped to launch a product, sevice or endeavor. I tell my friends that "the essence of creating is recreating." When you put the R-E

2 months ago

CREATE The Great Sound Century Recordings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May the 4th Richard Arnold Beattie Announces "The Great Sound Century Recording Project" to Revitalize Colorado’s Musical Heritage DENVER, CO – Richard Arnold Beattie, veteran singer-songwriter and performer, is proud to announce "The Great Sound Century Recording Project," a comprehensive initiative designed to preserve and promote original, traditional, and public domain music. As the landscape of live performance shifts, this project positions Colorado as the national

2 months ago

CREATE: A Little Bit of Better Time

As entreprenuers we play our daily game of "What if?" And yet we may tap into an innovative vein by asking "What ever happened to?" There is value in reflection in context. While I ask my friends about people that no longer roam the same ground, I also ask about activities, traditions and customs that made the valley unique. The Rest of the Story I met with the board of Valley Park and Recreation. By default the President, Treasuer and Secretary were represented by one diligent and weary wom

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CREATE A Canvas Campus

College bound students and those of us who are still paying for college are slowly understanding that there are options to customize a college experience that fits thei disposition, natural skills and aptitude. The New Campus is looking more like a blank canvas that they are able to design and CREATE at a price they can afford. For two decades community colleges have offered High School students an onramp while still getting their High School Diplomas. And more recently many community colleges

2 months ago

It's the Song and the Story

At CREATE Daily there are 7 Creative Disciplines the I employ that CREATE SUCCESS. The most marketable is the systematic discipline which allows me as a leader to CREATE Daily, Produce Daily and Distribute Daily media throughout the communities I serve. Once I stopped looking for a job, I started CREATE Daily and began to work at what I love and what I was made to do. 1. Story and Song As a Singer-Songwriter, a writer and journalist I think and practice as one readt to communicate through the

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CREATE-PRODUCE-DISTRIBUTE A 4-Profit Association

When I came to Colorado in 1978, I left New York at the intersection of the Bowery and 54th Street. I finished playing my weekly set at Trudy Hellers on Bleeker Street, sang a few songs at my performance class at the New School of Social Research, and was told that I could change or leave New York by a bartender at Trudy Hellers. My choices were go Punk or go Disco. Punk was thriving in the Bowery at CBGB's and Disco was "evolving" at Studio 54. The result of my choice was to "Go folk yourself!"

3 months ago

Colorado Burn Out

Richard Arnold Beattie CREATE Daily RABBITS- Columns March 23, 2026 Colorado Burn-Out Penrose, Colorado- On March 18th the annual fire-season began in Colorado with the “24 Fire” closing down a major highway between Penrose and Colorado Springs. The fire started at Fort Carson, a major military base with a history that spans back to the Civil War. Since 2010 fires have been a regular part of the summer, and with this year almost 2000 acres have been scorched, 57 homes evacuated and a search fo

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