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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: #MyKindOfBenedy
The plot to the story that will change everything forever for everyone? Hard work pays off.
You don’t have to be Rocky to know what drove him.Photo by: Dr. Abdullah NaserJust when you think things around here can’t get any more exciting, we pivot without warning from narrative art to raw naked grammar. And not just … Continue reading
#MyKindOfBenedy: How can something as silly as a movie make your life ever-better over time?
I am replacing the terms tragedy and comedy – with words that mean something.Photo by: Tim GreenJan Schlösser, bless his bits, asks this about last week’s video: Greg, would you mind giving some examples of narrative art that you would … Continue reading
Wish you could watch or read my kind of benedy? At least you can follow #MyKindOfBenedy on Twitter.
There are good stories down that way.Photo by: Duncan HullMy kind of Twitter #hashtag: #MyKindOfBenedy. I want to talk about the kinds of stories that will do the job I want done – the job you should want done – … Continue reading
How would I program my three-hour prime-time TV Koch-block? Family style.
Politics is downstream from culture, sure. But how do you fix the culture? Stop telling people that they’re wrong and start showing them how to be right instead.What if the Koch Brothers (or some other rich benefactor) were to take … Continue reading
Attn: Koch Brothers: “Cultivate humans, and they’ll cultivate everything else you’re looking for.”
We find the world we’re looking for. Here’s what I see: Look at all them books…I know precisely two things about the Koch Brothers: 1. They spend a lot of money trying to sway voters toward human liberty. 2. Marxists … 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
Jon Favreau’s “Chef” wins my vote as an exemplary benedy, a comedy that makes everyone better.
If you like the idea of good people working hard and winning, “Chef” will make a hearty meal for your soul.For the past few years I’ve been bitching at the would-be progenitors of a so-called ‘conservative culture,’ pointing that an … Continue reading
To whomever is shopping me on conservative art: Here’s a shopping list.
What art will change minds and lives and votes?Photo by: Dmitry KichenkoI’ve been trying for a year now to engage a debate on ‘conservative’ art – where to me ‘conservative’ means pro-egoistic and therefore anti-authoritarian. One of the troubles with … Continue reading
A conservative counter-culture? How about an egoistic counter-revolution instead?
“Every conservative has a responsibility to support the rising counterculture.”Sez who?And: What for?Adam Bellow says Andrew Breitbart says Santa Claus told him to tell you to buy my books. Why not? If Bellow can channel Breitbart, putting words in a … Continue reading
@LibertyIsleMag made #conservative #art into just another Dairy Queen disappointment for me.
Unless you have a boat of your own, there is no liberty on an island…It’s late in the day. You’re hot, tired, cranky. Up ahead on the right there’s a Dairy Queen, and for every reason you should not go … Continue reading
Let’s have a real writing contest: Take a sad song and make it better.
How do you make a family whole when everyone in it is broken? Hollywood will pay big bucks for a compelling answer to that question.The PIX-JOCKEY (visual fantasist) / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) Officious … Continue reading
Why comedy matters: Understanding the art that will redeem human civilization.
“Have you filled out your ObamaCare paperwork, punk?”I’ve been on a tear about comedy lately, and it were well to be more explicit about what I mean. The issue is this: 1. Conservatives are aware that they are losing the … Continue reading
Conservatives: If you want for the good guys to win in the end, the art you’re looking for is comedy.
By showing how an individual person applies the great wonder that is the human mind to the process of improving his circumstances over time, comedy makes the libertarian/individualistic/egoistic argument with every telling.mharrsch / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Breitbart.com is on … Continue reading