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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
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The Little Testudo Schoolhouse: How to rescue your children from tyranny.
The American high school, where brains, talent, creativity and drive perish.Photo by: Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryMarxists have taken over education? You bet they have – starting over 100 years ago. In this Sunday’s Church of Splendor homily: How … Continue reading
The last refuge of the Clan Testudo: How to shield your family from poisonous pop culture.
The world may be going to hell in a hand-cart, but you and the people you love most don’t have to go along.Photo by: umer malikA little while ago I met a wonderful family who exemplify everything I’m looking for … Continue reading
Deconstructing Madelyn Nguyen: The art we need is the art of of redemption.
The art we need is not violence disguised as valor, not vengeance masked as purity. The art we need is the art of goodness, the art of redemption. Poetry is leadership, but it ought to be leading you someplace you truly … Continue reading
You’re like who? Who’s like you? Who in the world actually agrees with you?
My friend James Pruitt fingered this news photo, source unknown to me, and this is my subsequent crop of the image – cropping to the action that matters to me. You see the Rockwell right away, of course, and the … Continue reading
Sympathy for the underfathered: How the right art will cultivate better lives for our children.
I have good news: The world outside your mind is a a glorious paradise of infinite possibilities. The right kind of art will show you – and your children, and everyone’s children – how to see it that way from … Continue reading
What’s the secret to raising generation after generation of great families? The right map.
Us against the world?This is how it’s done.The only families who reliably raise great families – good kids who grow up to raise good kids – are what I call Testudo families: Dad has persuaded everyone in the family to … Continue reading
#ThriversEd: Snagging the wrench out of the works with self-improvement for the not-yet self-aware.
“You’re following all this, right?”Photo by: Daniel X. O’NeilTrue confession: I can be fun to be around – for a while. But eventually I start to wear on almost everyone, because I can be juggling so many eggs, torches, bowling … Continue reading
A big-picture picture of ThriversEd: A talk-show for toddlers, stone soup with marshmallows.
What is ThriversEd? It’s a new way to play. Toddlers who master it will play better at everything – for life.Photo by: yorkdI wrote this morning about the PEAK scoring matrix, which is a critical piece of the ThriversEd idea. … Continue reading
Building the perfect Greek: Since DISC is cultivated, we can raise ever-better kids.
The persuasive miracle you seek is not just possible – it’s simple! You’re just talking to the wrong people.Photo by: gemteck1I know how to build Hoplite Greeks – Testudo fathers and mothers – self-responsible parents raising self-responsible parents, generation after … Continue reading
Letting kids be kids. Inducing children to make choices about sexuality is child sexual abuse.
“Hey, little girl. Wanna catch the gay gene?”Homosexuality is an unavoidable, inescapable non-lethal birth defect, and, accordingly, children must be recruited into it by every possible means. Wait… What…? The claim that homosexuality is a genetic defect, much like epilepsy, … Continue reading
President Fallguy: How YOU can win this presidential election.
“I say, I say, but that’s not FAIR!”No matter who wins the election, your freedom will lose. An unmoored electorate must move ever leftward, and, regardless of the results on election day, Foghorn Leghorn has successfully unmoored the Republican party … Continue reading
Only well-fathered families can thrive. Here’s how to build yours to last – forever.
Without fathers, there is no future.Photo by: fairuz othmanMen and women might be politically equal, but they are not functionally identical. This matters most where we are most different: Men cannot birth or suckle infants – and women cannot head … Continue reading
Jeffrey Tucker asks, “Why is this happening?” Liberty languishes because libertarians don’t reproduce.
Pictured at the right is a tweet I saw yesterday from Jeffrey Tucker, a big-shoe libertarian. Why, he wonders, is human liberty being Trumped by an obvious thug? He names six reasons, none of which are wrong, but he omits … Continue reading
To save the world, the West doesn’t need to export democracy, it needs to rehabilitate the family.
You set an example in everything you do. Every work of the mind is poetry first, the expression of the ideal. If you hope to live among people who live up to your standards, cultivate them – by cultivating the … Continue reading