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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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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.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
Print | Kindle
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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Just in case you didn’t know: I like vigorously dominant sex with a smokin’ hot blonde.
Me and my smokin’ hot blonde wife. I try to give her good cause to look at me that way.That would be my wife, of course. I think every form of extra-marital sex is enduringly self-destructive. I have nothing to … Continue reading
Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading
Set humanity free? No need. The enemies of liberty are graciously volunteering to exit the future.
I have the map to a much better future for humanity – but here is the best news of all: We’re headed that way already.Photo by: Ben FrancisI participated in a Facebook debate yesterday, something I almost never do. (Rule … 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
Programming better kids? You give me 13 minutes, I’ll give you grandchildren.
A better future? It’s easy. Just program better kids.Photo by: JayIf you haven’t followed my writing on the DISC-optimization of education, you’ve missed a lot. A simple praxis, really: A child cultivates his DISC profile – his life-long go-to empathy … Continue reading
TweetSchooling @YaronBrook on the death spiral of both #AynRand’s and #Marxism’s anti-fecundity.
Both #Marxism and #AynRand seek to reproduce by recruitment and indoctrination – cherry-picking the soul-broken Ci’s from Dc or Cd families, as religions have always done – but this is a diminishing return in the downward spiral of Marxist education.Photo … Continue reading
Who’d’a thunk it? The game theory of everything is also good for winning at games.
You can’t win if Gus Hansen already did.Photo by: ND StruplerI was talking to Sindre Paulsen this morning about a Chess tournament he’s been watching. What seems to be happening is this: A Cd player has worked out how to … Continue reading
Want to be a better, more-perfect version of yourself? Master something difficult this year.
In Latin we can say, “Educere est educare” – to bring up is to bring out – to cultivate your mind is to liberate it, to lead it forevermore away from the slavery of ignorance. No matter what your pedigree, … 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
What happens when #MeToo meets #BanBossy?
Ci women bosses are even worse as leaders than Ci men bosses, and, accordingly, they scream at their subordinates even more than the manicured man-boys they are alleged to be equal to.What do you suppose Ci women bosses scream about?Photo … 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
How to get the hell out of Hades: If you’ve got an hour and a dollar, Dusty will change your life.
What can a dumbass dog teach you about hope and love? Not much. Just the parts you’ve been getting wrong…Brother Willie wrote a brand new Kindle book for Thanksgiving: Dusty: An elegy of hope and love. It’s not a long … 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