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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.
You’re going to help.
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More by Greg Swann
FREE Willie
A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
Kindle
Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
Print | Kindle
Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
Print | Kindle
Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
Print | Kindle
Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Author Archives: Greg Swann
Laying claim to the land of The Dutch Uncle Game – which just might be everyplace.
Q: How do you tell a good leader from a poor one?A: Practice!Image by: Andrew KitzmillerThe Dutch Uncle Game is a temporary assertion of dominion over territory, and, hence, it is a game of appropriate authority – affectionately managing inclusion … Continue reading
#ThriversEd is (also) a brand new (baby) media empire – and I have a project to commission.
I wrote that caption – and then… I had an idea…Yesterday in an image caption, I said: If #BlackLivesMatter, why has no one made an animated TV series out of the life and times of Frederick Douglass? When the #ThriversEd … Continue reading
If there is only one The One – it ain’t you. The myth – and the menace – of the idea of the ‘ideal man.’
Bad news, kids. If there is only one The One – it ain’t you.Photo by: Tommy WongWhen you search for a new home to live in, you think you’re looking to select The One, the winner, the answer to all … Continue reading
Big things are made of little things. Sharing big ideas with little people will yield big results.
If #BlackLivesMatter, why has no one made an animated TV series out of the life and times of Frederick Douglass? When the #ThriversEd content empire is big enough, we’ll do this – and do it right.If you’re looking for a summary the ThriversEd idea, … Continue reading
My dawning mind: Polyglots, Marxist mirth and further thoughts on satire.
Jokes can be made out of love or malice, but every joke is a weapon – even a love-tap. Who is satire’s victim? At whom is the weapon aimed?Photo by: Mike MozartI’ve been chatting on Facebook this early morning with … Continue reading
You say: “Everything is new to a child!” #ThriversEd says: “First impressions are lasting.”
Everything is new to a child? You bet. Better still, first impressions are lasting. It’s daft to teach bad habits-of-mind to kids by negligent default, but it is very wise to teach them how to thrive instead.Photo by: Chad Hutto“Everything … Continue reading
Can’t wait to find out about The Marshmallow Challenge? Hang in there. It’s worth it.
What do you plan to do when you win The Marshmallow Challenge?Photo by: Jim, the PhotographerThe Marshmallow Challenge is a very simple ThriversEd game, the classic psychological experiment turned into a group self-improvement praxis: Two or more kids compete, head-to-head, … Continue reading
Wanna make it big as a Hollywood screenwriter? Just take a weed-whacker to every testicle you see.
“Hey, hey, hey! Who’s your daddy?”Photo by: Mike MozartHollywood hates fathers. Who knew? Just kidding. It’s an evergreen story, one that comes up every 18 months or so: ‘TV dads are dopes, dupes and dumb-asses.’ This trenchant essay is based … Continue reading
Education can deliver Splendor for all kids, not just a prosperous misery for the “lucky” few.
Life’s a dance. Who knew?Photo by: PICS by MARTYOnly two percent of American children, at best, actually benefit from all the education we throw at them. The rest are flowerboxed, in one way or another, somewhere along the gauntlet we … Continue reading
Why would anyone play volleyball without a net? How PEAK performance leads to peak humanity.
Q: What do you get when you play volleyball without a net?A: Better.Photo by: Hanna NorlinI wrote the other day about ThriversEd as “a wide-open volleyball-without-a-net experience.” If you can imagine playing volleyball without a net, what would be the … 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
Habituating peak performance: A quick peek at the PEAK scoring matrix.
How do you learn how to thrive?Photo by: Anne Berit HeggemI’m juggling a whole bunch of ideas I call ThriversEd, a sort of pre-pre-school curriculum for very young children – say 18 through 72 months, with the sweet spot being … Continue reading
Bidding farewell to Shale with a bid for her immortality.
By yearning so relentlessly, Shale showed us all of life.Shale, léminence grise you see to the right, is dying as I write this. She’s been with us for 19 years, and in that time she taught me more than I ever hoped to know about … Continue reading