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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.
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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.
Category Archives: Love and marriage
The how and why of a happy marriage and family in five minutes.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comMichael McNally of The Dream Executive interviewed me recently for his podcast. The full episode will be available soon, but here’s a short clip that’s near and dear to my … 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
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
Underfathered children? Check. Childless adults? Check. #Feminism is working just fine, thank you.
Yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily: Contra Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #Feminism is working just as intended: Unfathering children and fostering dependency on the state. And there is more to come…
Ideas from The 21 Convention and the answer to every married man’s prayers: Making more love more often.
My life my way. That’s why.To the right is the business-card image I used on my first slide from my #t21c presentation, a personal mission statement, of sorts. I could do decent stand-up on the idea of being a poet, … Continue reading
Livin’ on Tampa time: Women need Mars, the chaste chase and the primum bonum that is the self.
Me in Tampa: DISC, love, poker and the irreplaceable self-responsible man.I depart for Tampa tomorrow to speak at The 21 Convention. I plan to talk about some of the ideas in Shyly’s delight, especially DISCing everyone for fun and profit. … Continue reading
Yuppie love: The egoist’s guide to mastering the art of frolicking naked with the one you love.
The absolute last people anyone should turn to for advice about mammalian empathy are the fanatically Cautious advocates of reptilian empathy strategies – scientists. Empathy for the orgasm is most definitely an empathy for the machine, but people are not … Continue reading
Why do people get trapped in awful relationships? Because they think they’re fixing what’s wrong.
Find the love for life your dog never lives a day without at Amazon.com:Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.This came up in email, but I’m sharing it here in the hope that it might help people learn … Continue reading
Love among The Unfallen at every wavelength of heaven’s light.
Today is the last day to get The Unfallen – my rom-com novel with real romance and real comedy – for free. Invest yourself in this extract, if you like, or just snag the book while it’s free. This is … Continue reading
Devin’s devotion: “We are locked together, locked like the links of that chain.”
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.Loki’s Love Letters are prime choice LadyPorn for this reason: I am writing a man’s kind of love-making from a man’s point of view – while tickling every fancy that … Continue reading
A comic romp of love, sex and philosophy: My Kindle novel The Unfallen is FREE right now.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy … Continue reading
How does a man express his love? With teasing, torment, pushing, crowding and obstruction – that’s how.
The love of families is expressed with pushing, crowding and contrived annoyances. You call that love? I sure do. From Sunday’s Church of Splendor service, Loki’s the trickster’s humor as an expression of storgic love.
We all owe our freedom to fatherhood, but you owe your everything to your parents.
If you’re like me, you never thank your parents enough for all the gifts they gave you when you were growing up, but your humanity itself is the greatest treasure they conferred upon you.Photo by: ErinI have a lot on … Continue reading
What do you call an anti-family libertarian like Stefan Molyneux? A Marxist.
“If you want to perform the greatest service for political liberty, all you have to do is turf all of your unsatisfying relationships. Parents, siblings, spouse, it doesn’t matter.” –Stefan MolyneuxI do not wish to dwell on matters Molyneuvian, but … Continue reading
Parenting is coercion, so how can a consistent libertarian get the diapers changed?
Given a rational choice, which he cannot have and will not have for many years, no baby would choose to writhe in his own waste. But this does not make changing his diaper any less an act of physical force … Continue reading