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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: Splendor!
Zero tolerance punished by extermination is the natural order for every Cautious tyranny.
Backseat drivers are not a problem – until they seize the steering wheel. But once they do, the loop amplification of persistent, failed compliance displays will induce the Cautious tyrant to fix people in the only way they can be … Continue reading
Yearning, working and winning: How to look out for your own.
Today Chopsticks, tomorrow Heart and Soul.Photo by: Camera Eye PhotographyChurch this week: The world may be going to hell in a hand-cart, but you don’t have to go there with it. There could not possibly be a more propitious time … Continue reading
Traindancing: The mission statement.
‘Dinnertime?’Photo by: University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life SciencesI mentioned my new verb, shaling, a week or two ago in Church. I’m writing a novel called Traindancing, which will document a lovely and inspiring kind of shaling. The … Continue reading
Dylan does nothing – and everything is undone.
“I hate you! I hate you! Daddy, I hate you! So bad!”Illustration by: the euskadi 11I admire Bob Dylan’s inaction over his Nobel Prize, even as I recognize that it may be less a principled stand than it is typically-sphinxlike … Continue reading
Lies all the way down: Why you MUST keep your own counsel.
Bullshit all the way down.Photo by: Luis PenadosChurch this week: As the Wikileaks leaks make ever more obvious, we are living in a world of unconstrained deception. Now more than ever, you must think for yourself. I speak in the … Continue reading
DISCing ‘The Band’ shows why their break-up was inevitable – and how to fix your team.
“This wheel shall explode.”I mentioned the DISC profile of The Band the other day in church. Here is a fuller explication, first posted last August. Note that in the video I put Levon Helm on Si, but that was a … Continue reading
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize cheapens true greatness even as it insults his actual achievements.
Most people who dress like this for work are Untouchables who collect their wages out of their instrument cases, mostly in coins. This man is an Irreproachable who just won the Nobel Prize for literature. What explains the difference in … Continue reading
Nine empathies, exposing empathy as the self-seeking survival strategy it’s been all along.
Amazon.com: bit.ly/NineEmpathiesFREE this weekend for Kindle: Why academics get empathy all wrong: Empathy ultimately is imagination – the invocation of the presumed mental states to be found in other people’s minds, but also the contra-factual insistence that one can experience … Continue reading
The Admirability Virus: Catch the world getting something right – more and more often every day.
Cultivating Splendor one mind at a time.By: Petr & Bara RuzickaDespair is worse that pointless, but cultivating admirability – in yourself and in everyone around you – will pay huge and ever-increasing dividends. How self-loving is that? And how Church … Continue reading
Hillary Clinton and Rotarian Socialism: What’s wrong with the National Association of Realtors?
You don’t have to wake up next to Hillary Clinton to know that the National Association of Realtors is infested with fleas…Writing for San Diego Rostra, my friend Brian Brady reminded me of this BloodhoundBlog post from 2007, echoed here … Continue reading
Too much bad news, bunkie? Look out for your own with the dollar store sex toy challenge.
When the kids are away, dad and mom should make time to play.Church Sunday, to cleanse the palate of all that news, a fun way to make the most of your marriage:
A year later, what’s the #Libertarian stand on the #PlannedParenthood videos? Blank out.
If you look into a mirror and discover a ghoul glowering back at you, what should you do? Ask @YaronBrook. He’s got experience with that kind of thing.Church Sunday: A year after the Planned Parenthood videos, where do big-foot libertarians … Continue reading
Dallas = Orlando = Boston = Aurora: How feminism spawns spree-killers.
Attention-seeking time bombs…Comes this week yet another spree-killing, this time a massacre of Dallas cops. As the headline indicates, I think these guys are more alike than they are different, and their differences – Islam, race, sexual politics – come … Continue reading
Freedom? From what? Pursue your own independence!
Church Sunday: “Devoured by local predators only!” is not a proud boast.
Welcoming Sebastian: Birthing civilization anew with a brand new baby boychild.
If you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.Birthing a child is one of the biggest bets you can make on the future, a gamble my niece … Continue reading