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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.
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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
A self-adoration film festival for #ValentinesDay: The path to everything is paved with #poetry.
You are lovable from the inside out. Respond accordingly.seyed mostafa zamani / Foter / CC BY Write the first poem of a better marriage for the two of you: Your marriage isn’t that strong? Here’s why: To get everything the … Continue reading
Weddingsong: The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Marilee Johnson.
Click the image to download a PDF copy to print out and tape up on your own bathroom mirror.“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or … Continue reading
The libertarian stand on gay marriage? Get rid of the marriage laws – and keep your eye on the ball.
If you aren’t evangelizing egoism, you’re either spinning your wheels, at best, or you are pathetically snarking with the other losers at the web-equivalent of the 7-Eleven parking lot.As a hat tip to my friend Judah Hoover, I will start … Continue reading
The Runaway Minivan: Families fail when fathers won’t lead.
Why is your family failing? In the overwhelming number of normal marriages, the process will have begun when dad stopped actively driving the relationship. All sorts of other ugly stuff will happen along the way, but all of this is … Continue reading
Rock Me Mama Egoism In Action: The link from art to human values and back.
Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption – simple stuff. This is egoism in action, me being me. This video connects directly to the … Continue reading
Willie’s wager: Sun City, a new skein of Willie yarns, is going to make you cry.
Got teens? Among many other things, this book strives to redeem marriage and family for the generation of kids for whom stable families have been too rare.But it’ll be a cleansing cry, I promise. Sun City is the collection of … Continue reading
Reflections of the irresistible by way of one drop in an ocean of love.
That’s my best-beloved, Cathleen Collins. She thinks I’m about to tease her. She’s right.I’ve been thinking lately about the idea of irresistibility — this, plausibly, because I get hot for all absolute states — when I blessed my argument with … Continue reading
Tease your lover by text — and drive the Feds crazy doing it.
“EF or FF?” Putting hot-sauce on hamburger, making an adventure of the mundane.Last week Uncle Willie wrote about the kinds of playful games loving married couples can carry out over years or decades. This I totally get. I am always … Continue reading
Why would anyone get married? To live the highest expressions of Splendor in the fully-human life.
To be together is an accident of location. To be committed to each other and to the things you make together is a marriage.Jeff Belmonte / Foter.com / CC BY Dr. Helen asked something like this at the start of … Continue reading
Baby, they’re dumb in there: Disintermediate the elites for being evil — or simply for being stupid?
Just how devastatingly dull-witted are the members of that class of morons who hope to declare themselves our overlords? As we see every day, there is apparently no lower limit to how dumb you can be to get a job … Continue reading
More from Greg Swann at The 21 Convention: PUA, love, sex, orgasms and The Unfallen.
Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention has posted another short clip from my presentation at The 21 Convention in Austin. This amounts to a short promotion of my novel, The Unfallen, but I manage to cover a wide range of … Continue reading
Loving Cathleen…
My wife Cathleen and I have been on a love jag over the past few years, and I cannot begin to tell you how beneficial it’s been. A very simple idea: We added spending time alone together every day as … Continue reading
It shouldn’t hurt to be married: A safe-word to the wise can help you get your marriage back on track.
Human social concourse, to the extent that it is not criminal, is mutually voluntary. This goes for marriage, too, and it doesn’t do to say that wheedling, whining, nagging, ridiculing or brow-beating are somehow not coercive in their intent. You … Continue reading
Where is the love in your marriage? Could it be that you chased it away?
Looking for a simple technique to turn back the clock on your marriage — maybe all the way back to your honeymoon? Would you like to get back to the love and respect the two of you knew every day … Continue reading
Fifty shades of pink sock: Facing up to and fixing the hook-up contradiction.
There’s a special language that men speak. I call it guy-talk. It goes something like this: “Two legs? Who the heck needs two legs? Two legs is a crutch. Two eyes?! Two eyes are for pussies!” I don’t know how … Continue reading