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Music Mountain Prelude

Three Sides to Every Story

Walking the Same Ground

Peripheral Vision

Gone Fishing

Del Norte/St. Mary's Glacier

Dark Skies (Field of Light)

Schoolfield Road

Rhythm of the Morning

They Came to Play

When I Close my Eyes

Notes From my Window

Westcliffe Wind

The Rest of the Story

Book written and read by Dick Jones

Music and Lyrics written and performed by Richard Arnold Beattie

Drawings and Art by Andy Mast

Piano- Yancy Strode/ Harmonica- David Metsch

(c) (p) 2026 RAB-Studios Westcliffe, Colorado

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I am a traveler. I often have a journal, a guitar on my back an overnight bag and a laptop. Short, long and medium trips experienced through the journey learning and serving the communities that I visit. One of the areas of CREATE Daily is concentrating and offering the benefits of travel and transportation options at home, through our work and in community. One of my initiatives is to build community chapters for the Leadon Family Foundation (and University) and offering benefits and opportunities for travel and entrepreneurship to members. Traveling is in my blood. As a writer, and a singer-guitarist and songwriter, I have conqured creative blocks by hitting the road. I write on trains, planes and in hotel rooms and lobbys. I love the customs, the rhythm and the vibes of a city, town and Main Street or in a rural setting.

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From Create Daily by Richard Arnold Beattie, this is the weekend edition with the CREATE Daily column read out loud by Richard Arnold Beattie, interviews with Chris Haggerty of Monarch Ski Area on Snow Harvesting and a big end of Lent with Louis Armstrong!

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CREATE Daily is more than an acrostic — and it is more than where you live and work. It is about who you are in community with.

Over the past year, I have traveled extensively, studying transportation systems, reviewing hundreds of hotels, restaurants, and modes of travel, all while telling the stories of people, places, and the things that move them. Closer to home, I have served as a communications specialist for rural transportation and Main Street Connections. At one conference, I listened as transportation officials discussed funding challenges and why transportation is so often a nonprofit, grant-seeking endeavor that relies heavily on government agencies and Medicare for support.

What travel and transportation need most is CREATE thinking.

Back in the 1990s, I wrote an op-ed in The Denver Business Journal. While shopping malls were being "repurposed," Light Rail was being built across the metro area. I dared to dream that Light Rail Hubs could become centers of transportation — living, breathing malls linking home, work, and community, with trains running through Cherry Creek, Southwest Plaza, Aurora, and Westminster. That vision could have solved neighborhood blight, accessibility challenges, and design shortcomings — and it should have been seen as a prime investment opportunity for entrepreneurs, banks, and property investors alike.

Rural transportation has that same opportunity today.

CDOT and local agencies can partner with community-rooted entrepreneurs — such as the Colorado Chapter of the Leadon Family Foundation — and collaborate with custom travel solutions and clubs to book business travel and vacations that fund local and regional connections. Travel for shopping, medical appointments, connections to rail, air, and Bustang can become a profit-first endeavor, serving everyone who wants cleaner air, educational opportunities, and access to recreational, cultural, and entrepreneurial experiences — at home, through work, and in the community.

The CO Chapter of the Leadon Family Foundation is a think-and-do tank, here to help you explore what's possible. To join us, email Richardbeattie809@gmail.com.

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Today in the CREATE Community column, I am interested in how a new charter of the Leadon Family Foundation will help build and create community. I have taken on the responsibility to move forward with being chairman of such an entity by the foundadation's president, Charlie Leadon. On April 1rst, we are also beginning an integrated media daily CREATECast with a podcast and this column. Monday is community-driven.

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Part 1 of a classic concert of Folk Legend Pete Seeger at Dartmouth College in 1957.

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