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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 Price
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.
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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More by Greg Swann
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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.
Kindle
Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
Print | Kindle
Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
Print | Kindle
Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
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
Print | Kindle
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.
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
A little bit of honey cake for Desdemona as she makes her last escape.
Yes, it’s definitely dead dog month around here. I am much informed by the storgic love of dogs for their people, and I am much informed by dogs as such. This sequence of ideas dates from four years ago today, … Continue reading
Standing with my nose pointed west, waiting for the world to come to me.
Desdemona the Scrivener. As is obvious, she would prefer not to.I live on a five-hundred-year time line. I pay attention to day-to-day stuff, but I recognize how repetitive human issues are. I tend not to lend much thought to anything … Continue reading
Why I read Ibsen.
It is common to play Hedda as a neurotic, but I think a more correct reading is that she is a troll, a sprite, a spark of hell’s fire seeking ready tinder on the Earth.I grew up in a grimy … Continue reading
Redemption is egoism in action: My eBook “Janio at a Point” is yours free for the downloading.
Download a free eBook about the redemption of the ego – about Splendor.In February of 1988, I wrote a short book called Janio at a Point. It was written to be the epilogue of a much larger book, a 600-page … 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
The song of the self.
You can choose the light or the darkness, or you can run from one to the other, wasting your life in a lather of dithering. But you cannot be alive as a human being and yet, somehow, choose not to … 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