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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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Disintermediation means cutting out the middle-man, and, by teaching you a new way of thinking about human nature and about your own unique self, the free book Man Alive! puts you in charge of your own philosophical affairs.
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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
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- 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.
Category Archives: Love and marriage
Building the perfect Greek: Since DISC is cultivated, we can raise ever-better kids.
The persuasive miracle you seek is not just possible – it’s simple! You’re just talking to the wrong people.Photo by: gemteck1I know how to build Hoplite Greeks – Testudo fathers and mothers – self-responsible parents raising self-responsible parents, generation after … Continue reading
The DISC of birth order: Each new child fills what is then the biggest hole in your family.
That’s right. I am just who you were expecting!Photo by: JayThere’s an article on leadership and birth order at the Atlantic this morning, but I haven’t read it. It’s behind a paywall, and paying for Marxism is not just double-suicide, … 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
The purpose of life is life, and, accordingly, the ideal human being is the ideal mate.
We better the world by our every increase.Photo by: NattuWe best express our nature as human beings by best expressing our nature as rational, choosing organisms. Accordingly the ideal human being is the person who best realizes everything that it … Continue reading
From The Unfallen: Kiss me…
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com. kiss me your glory i kiss you my joy kiss me your giggling girlishness i kiss you my mannish boy kiss me your tickling i kiss you my laughter kiss … 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
“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
The Captain’s Commitment: Honoring our enduring obligations.
Nobody wants to think about abortion, so let’s think about something else instead: Now that wasn’t cruel! But Cameron Crowe’s 13-second morality play illuminates perfectly why this crisis of conscience over intrauterine infanticide matters so much: You create enduring obligations … Continue reading
What’s the best tactic in the Ruling Class-led war on humanity? Convincing you not to have a family.
To the extent that a woman is doing with her life what any man can do, then, by all means, all hail the winsome Miss Spinster. But to the extent that she is not doing what only she as a … Continue reading
All you need is love? No, but everything you need, including your freedom, emerges from your love.
Independence Day is the father’s day that should matter most to Americans. This is the day we celebrate the love of liberty that began with the love of a man for his woman and with their love for the family … Continue reading
An illustrator’s guide to making your marriage last a lifetime.
A fully-committed man’s four hugging appendages deployed to their best advantage.As part of everything else I’m doing, I am hauling marriage back from the abyss. I am very much a champion of the family, but your marriage is what makes … Continue reading
The last refuge of the Clan Testudo: How to shield your family from poisonous pop culture.
The world may be going to hell in a hand-cart, but you and the people you love most don’t have to go along.Photo by: umer malikA little while ago I met a wonderful family who exemplify everything I’m looking for … Continue reading
#MothersDay makes for a good brunch, but the #BaltimoreUprising shows us why #fatherhood matters much more.
The people who will matter tomorrow are the children who are being well-brought-up today, and well-brought-up means well-fathered.Photo by: Julian PoveyWhat’s the most important thing to talk about every year at Mother’s Day? Fatherlessness. Last year I spoke about the … Continue reading
How should the Supreme Court decide gay marriage? The real issue is the establishment clause.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of gay marriage today, pushing us just a little bit closer to civil war. A government of men and not of laws? Not hardly. We are by now a delphic kleptocracy, divining … Continue reading
The perfect date night for the man with a plan? Take your baby to the shootin’ range.
The Manly Display: Showing her a man worth trusting, yielding to, following – looking up to.Photo by: Wheeler CowperthwaiteThis week’s homily at The Church of Splendor is called Four Word Marriage Therapy: Doing Stuff Alone Together. In the video I … Continue reading