The Affectionate Display
“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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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.
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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
#BrotherYouAskedForIt: The media has betrayed your freedom? So true – starting with the National Review.
If you can’t trust a Soviet spy…My second-favorite laugh line from Atlas Shrugged is the reporter who effuses, “I know what I’d like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news.” I bring it up in … Continue reading
Digging into a sexy love poem to get a handle on active, imagic, metaphor-rich writing.
My 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.Forgive me my vanity, but I want to dig into the … Continue reading
Conservatism, the fanatical preservation of the status quo, is why your world will only change from the inside out.
“Things could be better? For whom, precisely?”Photo by: TOONMAN_blchinFrom May of 2012, a free-wheeling anthropological history of the idea of conservatism – the fanatical preservation of the status quo – illustrating why you will not be released from your self-imposed … Continue reading
The affectionate response: Making the love that lasts.
From church yesterday: How does romance turn into storgic love? How does that become a family. At Youtube, The Cul de Sac Hero offered this: “Yours is the correct attitude towards life on this planet.” I’ll take more-correct, anyway, with … Continue reading
“If violence is what it takes to keep an interested fellow in the room – that is a price some desperate women will pay.”
In a world where fewer women can rely on men, some will themselves take on the protective coloration of exaggerated male characteristics — blustering, cursing, belligerence, defiance, and also, as needed, promiscuity.Photo by: jo.sau Mary Eberstadt in National Review: Beneath … Continue reading
Language lesson: Helping college girls (and President Obama) distinguish regret from rape.
This is about justice, not identity politics. Yet it is a thing of wonder that the identity politics of feminism could induce so many women (and many men!) to prize vengeance against hypothetical rapists and actual juvenile cads so highly … Continue reading
50 Shades of Splendor: Mastering romance in a world that hates love.
Play-fighting is affection. Aggression is not. What makes marriage a playground? Play!Photo by: Danumurthi MahendraThere is a true playground in marriage, instead of the mutual boredom or mutual hostility — real or pantomimed — you’ve been taught to expect. What’s … Continue reading
Mind what goes into your mind: Stories always improve, and #BrianWilliams’ lies are common, not rare.
We depend on each other for every fact we cannot directly apprehend, yet all human testimony must be held at some level of doubt. Stories always improve. Moreover, everything on television is a lie.Photo by: flash.proThe path to truth within … Continue reading
The days after the night of the long knives give #NBCNews the chance to redeem itself completely.
“It only hurts when I smirk.”Photo by: David ShankboneJohn Nolte is on a tear about Brian Williams, as are many. Sucks to be him, but this disaster affords NBC News the perfect opportunity to change its ways for the good, … Continue reading
Fed says Rand Paul can’t audit the books because Congress has cooties.
Rand Paul: “Citizens have the right to know why the Fed’s policies have resulted in a stagnant economy and record numbers of people dropping out of the workforce.”Photo by: PBS NewsHour“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then … Continue reading
“There is a crack in everything” – and that’s how the future gets in.
Click the image to download a PDF copy to print out and tape up on your own bathroom mirror. If the center cannot hold, what do you suppose will pop up in its place? From yesterday’s Church of Splendor, what … Continue reading
Where have all the good men gone? You’ll find them where their values are appreciated and admired.
Me from May 2013, fortified by Church today: Stand by your man. Things fall apart. What happens when they do? We walk our dogs late at night at Rio Vista Park in suburban Phoenix. I love to go past the … Continue reading
The lesson of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre: You must never silence your self.
Slavery is voluntary: When you surrender your voice, you surrender your soul.One purpose of public ‘debate’ is to confuse the issue with quibbles. The battle for free expression has nothing to do with the content of that expression – and … Continue reading
Four words to cure Islam of its vestigial insanity: “Fuck you. I quit!”
The solution to every problem posed by anti-human dogmas is four-words simple: Fuck you. I quit. When the sane believers of every sort of doctrine work up the nerve to say those four words to their would-be masters, the world … Continue reading
Make 2015 your best year yet – the first of many.
Church from Sunday, how to plan your 2015 so that it comes to be the first in a long string of best-years-yet: