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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.
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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.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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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
Contra @realDonaldTrump, @Nero, @StefanMolyneux – and Eric Cartman: Tu quoque is never okay.
An Incandescent in power will always become a Cautious tyrant. And #BrotherYouAskedForIt!The Army of Cartmans marches on – to its terminal peril – with new generals, and now with an even more tragic end goal. This week’s Church of Splendor … Continue reading
#BrotherYouAskedForIt: #Trump thrall @Nero parades on a litter borne by his pretend slaves.
@Nero’s litter bearers deserve what they will get. No one pretends to be a slave for long.Opposing evil with evil assures the triumph of evil. Until I saw that photo, I hadn’t known I could be even more disgusted by … Continue reading
The three most important words in all of human scholarship? “I was wrong.”
You had to learn how to make that simple hand gesture – and it wasn’t easy at first.Photo b]y: sylvarWe are bombarded with science “news” thrust upon us by Cautious academics – almost all of it tendentious. Here’s an example … Continue reading
RIP Guy Clark: Some days you rob the train. Some days the train robs you.
Per my friend David Brodie, yesterday was supposed to be Happy Day, but the passing of Guy Clark made it a very sad day for me. More than Townes van Zandt, more than Leonard Cohen, much more than Bob Dylan, … 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
Public school is now pervert school, so I bring you “Uncle Willie’s World-Class High School In A Matchbook Cover.”
The world’s greatest gun salesman is now also the world’s greatest promoter of home schooling. Accordingly, I will revisit an ideal high school curriculum I devised a while back: Parents: If your children have mastered geometry and Latin, they can … Continue reading
Robert @Tracinski gets Rotarian Socialism. Why can’t @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Inst. catch a clue?
If your ideal is at odds with reality, your claims are useless.Do you watch “Shark Tank” on ABC? We rarely miss it. I like to see eager strivers showing how they’re putting a dent in the universe – and I … Continue reading
For Moms on Mother’s Day: The best way to express your motherhood? Stand by your man.
What’s most worth celebrating on Mother’s Day? Fatherhood.Photo by: Claudia HeidelbergerThis is true: Everything that is wrong with everything is wrong because the remnants of Western Civilization have spent the last 200 years undermining fatherhood. This is not a new … Continue reading
Redemption rocks for everyone in “Begin Again” – #MyKindOfBenedy.
Keira Knightley charms as a jilted song-writer reluctantly effecting musically-disruptive retribution with a back-from-the-abyss record company exec played by Mark Ruffalo in Begin Again – very much #MyKindOfBenedy.Begin Again, currently Netflixable, is everything I look for in a benedy, a … Continue reading
You know #Trump is a monster. What do you plan to tell your children when he comes for you – or for them?
No one does smug like a lifelong thug.Will you feed your kids to this monster?The Republicans are screwed: They have reduced their options to Benito Mussolini versus Frank Underwood. The worst of it is, the election will be won by … Continue reading
#NeverTrump and #NeverHillary: The most self-loving way I can think of to vote for slavery-by-proxy.
There are a lot of different ways to think about voting, most of which are just quasi-religious white noise to me. But the issue of voting — do it or don’t, and, if so, how and why? — has gnawed … Continue reading
Flesh Puddles: The most dishonest kind of suicide is camouflaged by infinite indulgence.
“I ate the Food Pyramid and now I am one.”Photo by: Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin RoseFor church this week, a cautionary tale: We are hectored about the epidemic of suicides among the middle class and the epidemic of deaths by … 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
My entry in ‘The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition.’
None so deserving…Image by: thierry ehrmannBy way of The Spectator, time and fate have conspired to make a limericist of me: Erdogan? Let none dare deride him. The thought police sidle beside him. With his jaw forged from glass, his … Continue reading
Oxford’s Torment: The Latest Chapter in the Shakespeare Mystery.
If the rose were a pose, how sweet would that smell?The enduring mystery of William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, has become a little less mysterious. It may be that we can never fully plumb the genius of our ever-living Bard, … Continue reading