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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.
Print | Kindle
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
In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?
“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading
Greg Swann speaks: An extended interview with me in Orlando from August of 2013.
Orlando, where you can almost always find a footing.In August of 2013, Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention brought me to Orlando to do a video interview. I stayed for a month, for my own purposes, but the flights were … Continue reading
We can #StopGunViolence by teaching young men appropriate authority. Ask Anthony Johnson to help.
Me, me, me at #T21C.Another month, another mass shooting. Are guns the problem? You bet. Guns in the hands of under-fathered, over-medicated, involuntarily-celibate, universally-rejected young men. Take away the guns (in your dreams) and these boys will kill with knives … 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
What’s the BEST thing Steve Jobs made? That would be you. So think different. Do better. And thrive.
[Today is the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. This is me writing in 2011, when he annouced his retirement from Apple. –GSS] Steve Jobs announced his resignation today as CEO of Apple, Inc. From that one little tidbit … Continue reading
Attn. Yaron Brook: Your shameful silence on abortion spotlights the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual bankruptcy.
Objectivism has always been at war with the obvious, uncontested facts of human gestation. That war is now all the way lost. You’re not clipping your toenails, you are murdering your own child. Who knew?Photo by: Morten LiebachAs I write … Continue reading
The Benedy Benediction: Deploying fiction to set children on a better course – for life.
Here’s a radical notion: How about we show them better maps?Photo by: Leo HidalgoI’ve been talking to Brian Brady on Facebook about an epiphany I had last week: I want to talk to eight-year-olds. Wait! Don’t call the Kiddie Kops … 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
When Prince Charming is just a sad clown with a schtick, every Swoop Girl is Cinderella-for-a-day.
Popular artists and their puerile prey – could that be you? – love to fantasize about a world with “no-strings-attached,” but that world is not this one. In the real world of real consequences, the mistake you made last night … Continue reading
Getting Ass Backwards: How the hell can you screw up sex?
It should not be possible, but humanity seems to be screwing up its own wet dream…Photo by: Kevin DooleyLove is in the air? Lust is in the news, anyway. I’m connecting dots from these three news stories: • Former prep … Continue reading
Practical anarchism is egoism in action: “Be who you are. Do what you want. Have what you love.”
My answer, always: Live for your own sake, in pursuit of your own values, in behalf of your own loved ones – starting with yourself.Photo by: Kalyan ChakravarthyPeople who are fans of talk-show host Stefan Molyneux and who are not … Continue reading