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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.
Save the world from home – in your spare time!
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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
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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Sharing the gift of everyday benedy: Profitting from commercial exogamy the Shark Tank way.
Imagine local ‘Shark Tank’-like events: What better way to communicate the idea that hard work pays off than with an event devoted to making hard work pay off!I’m coming at the idea of benedy every way I can think of. … 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
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
A fast farewell to Greenhurst.
Got Yard Sale?We chapter our marriage in houses. That’s what comes of being in real estate – and being broke a lot. So far, we are Cochise, El Caminito and Greenhurst, the respective street names of our homes. Commencing tomorrow, … Continue reading
A brief history of the four most-intellectually-productive years of my life: 2017.
I had four great years this year, in three disciplines: Character, education and aestethics/fiction. Click the links to learn what you’ve missed. You can study me now or later, with the only difference being the Splendor you will have lost … Continue reading
If you are in despair at the end of #NaNoWriMo, consider writing my way.
“Yeah, but what does the divan look like?”Illustration by: Lewis MinorWe are nearing the end of yet another “National Novel Writing Month,” which suggests to me that a few people will have accomplished something and a lot of people will … Continue reading
Fresh Willie: Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Hope is family. Family is hope.That’s why trains go in circles.Brother Willie has been writing choo-choo train stories for two years now. The first collection of them publishes today. It’s called “Traindancing: Bedtime stories for your inner child from The … Continue reading
Deconstructing Madelyn Nguyen: The art we need is the art of of redemption.
The art we need is not violence disguised as valor, not vengeance masked as purity. The art we need is the art of goodness, the art of redemption. Poetry is leadership, but it ought to be leading you someplace you truly … Continue reading
A Las Vegas redemption? See it when TV’s Pastor Trey Coyle takes on Sarno’s Ghost – at Caesars Palace!
“Is there anything else people can do at casinos – besides, you know, winning?”I was working on a farce set in Las Vegas when the town got shot up. It’s a Willie story, a #MyKindOfBenedy called “Las Vegas Redemption: Pastor Trey … Continue reading
John Wayne, John Galt and John McClane walk into a bar. Why does each of them come out alone?
“No. You’re wrong, punk.I’m the real plastic Jesus!”Photo by: Esparta PalmaNo, I’m not making a joke. I can come up with my own dumb-joke premises, thank you. And I’m not teaching Pickup For Swarthy Brutes. No, instead I’m talking about… … Continue reading
Dear binge-TV-programmers: A series like “Thriving through Harvey” would hold my attention.
“You and what army, Harvey?”I hate serial fiction – franchise movies, series TV, multi-book sagas. That’s funny, considering that I’ve written at least a hundred stories about a serial character – Brother Willie. Even so, serial fiction bores me pretty … Continue reading
Sympathy for the underfathered: How the right art will cultivate better lives for our children.
I have good news: The world outside your mind is a a glorious paradise of infinite possibilities. The right kind of art will show you – and your children, and everyone’s children – how to see it that way from … Continue reading
What to do with the end of an endless Summer: Smile, study me and thrive!
Driven-sociability. It’s not just worth reading about: It’s how we survive.The curse of long holiday weekends is that time can hang heavy on your hands. Still worse, every source of new online content goes off for it’s own bar-be-que. Apparently, … Continue reading