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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.
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Love husbandry: Marriage dies by the snarl – but it thrives in the light of a loving smile.
A good marriage makes everyone better: Thriving seeds ever-more-abundant thriving. You breed by breeding, but you breed your ideas with your good example, too.Photo by: Hamza ButtPicking up from yesterday, let’s put a finer point on what we’ve learned so … Continue reading
Why is love, sex, marriage and family a battlefield? Ci Blindness. I have the math to fix it.
Human civilization is nothing but the answer to this one monumentally important question: How does a nice guy go about getting a second date around here?Photo by: Kevin DooleyWell, I’ve had a fruitful fortnight: Robert Tracinski went all Irrational Hagiographic … Continue reading
Empathy tells all: Why are libertarians so hostile to marriage and family?
Do you see any room for a baby – an endlessly needy whining mammal that will never, ever pay back its monetary and opportunity costs – in there? That’s why you see so few babies among libertarians.Photo by: Lisa Rosario[From … Continue reading
Two bodies, one love, one ideal, one destiny: Marriage is cooperation, not competition. Who knew?
“I can’t get no… satisfaction…”Yikes! That’s the picture I made the other day of the hypothetical marriage of Inferox to Facinatox, the least Ds, most Ci couple I could imagine. If Gaius and Gaia, the counter-vailingly hypothetically perfect married couple, … Continue reading
Why was Ayn Rand’s marriage a living hell? And how can you make your own better?
And you may ask yourselfWhat is that beautiful house?And you may ask yourselfWhere does that highway go to?And you may ask yourselfAm I right? Am I wrong?And you may say to yourself yourselfMy God! What have I done?!My friend Teri … Continue reading
Since we know Ayn Rand was lying about her marriage, what else was she lying about?
When you say nothing, you say everything.Yesterday we established to no objections that Ayn Rand and all her hired hands have lied unrelentingly and for decades about her marriage to Frank O’Connor. It turns out she treated her ‘top value’ … Continue reading
Ayn Rand’s 7 helpful tips for wrecking your marriage with a total, lifelong commitment.
That Robert Tracinski is a hard-working carney!Photo by: Paul SablemanRobert Tracinski braced yet another cleansing ritual yesterday, seeking absolution from the goddess of his idolatry with his umpteenth mountain of cotton-candy praise. Kim Jong-un should have such an apple polisher. … Continue reading
Love and reliability: Marriage takes to the sky.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.I may make church later this morning, just so I can laugh at myself. I’m getting ready to deal with the idea of reliability – which is what Driven/Sociable civilization … Continue reading
Patriot’s Day I: How #feminism destroyed love, marriage and the family.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.Photo by: msmorningtonFrom Frontpage, a long, horrifying essay documenting the origins, … Continue reading
Do you want to engineer a happy marriage? He drives, she rides shotgun.
Want a happy marriage? It’s easy. Whatever he is at work, at home the husband should manage his behavior as a Driven Sociable: A definite agenda with a focus on affection and enjoyment. And whatever she does outside the home, … Continue reading
5 reasons every grown-up couple should marry – with an ironclad marriage contract to make their new family last forever.
To be together is an accident of location. To be committed to each other and to the things you make together is a marriage.Photo by: Garry KnightThe inconquerable Janet Bloomfield (better known as JudgyBitch) has offered up five reasons no … Continue reading
The Rancor-Free Marriage: Deploying better empathy strategies to be most-happily wed.
A key to our happy marriage is my desire to keep my Cathleen looking on me that way.How is that you can get along so perfectly with your dog or cat, when there is so much ongoing conflict in your … Continue reading
When do I give up on my marriage? And how do I know if I should?
When should you give up on your marriage?How about never?Photo by: Clyde RobinsonThere is no theology in an atheist church, but still I would love to give my catechisms a big, fancy theological name, something like Iconoclasticism. Consider: I run … Continue reading
How do you “work at” your marriage? How about by making love continuously?
Wanna make love more often? It’s easy. Marry for life and then make love in everything you do.Photo by: Brian RichardsonTheory is a fine thing, but it don’t get the eggs fertilized. The everyday praxis of “working at” your marriage … Continue reading
“Working at” your marriage: What does it mean – and why bother?
Every relationship requires maintenance, most especially the most important relationship in your life.Photo by: Vladimir PustovitDavid Brodie asked me a great question about last week’s homily, and that provides the springboard for the Church of Splendor this week: “I’m wondering … Continue reading