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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
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- 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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Leadership beckons – and it’s looking right at you!
Leadership beckons. You split yourself from the herd and you turn and you beckon and you lead love toward love for love. That’s the only reason to lead, and, accordingly, it’s the only reason anyone ever actually does lead.Photo by: … Continue reading
The persistence of grinding: ‘The Founder’ on Netflix is a fun business movie about family.
I wouldn’t call ‘The Founder’ a benedy. More like a docu-drama – with Dogberry. The business model stuff is excellent, Shark Tank with a plot. The family dynamics is right up my street: Ray Kroc builds an empire while breaking … Continue reading
When Kate became Nora: “Calm down, get married, have kids, cultivate joy.”
A woman’s place is in the home –as CEO of a staff of dozens.What would be Act IV of Kate and Leopold? Act I of A Doll’s House. And when Nora Helmer finally gets everything she’s been shaling for – … Continue reading
Free to a good home: A fun, easy plug-’n’-play best-seller kid-lit franchise.
What your kids need most from their bedtime story is what you bring to it even without the story, but you can bring the right kind of stories to your children even if no one has written them down in … Continue reading
In my high school comedy of manners, #Trump would be the goofy kid-brother stalking horse for #Cruz.
Who wants to buy ‘Frankenstein’ retold as a high school farce?Photo by: Peter StevensFrom December 10, 2015: Call this a movie treatment. I’ll flesh it out and make it farcical fiction when somebody’s check clears the bank. For now, the … Continue reading
Shedding grace with an Archimedean efficiency – by recording bedtime stories.
What if we could give underfathered children some of the attention, some of the affection, some of the moral guidance they’re missing out on? What if we could share with them some of your childhood?Let’s start with a sad story: … Continue reading
To save the world, the West doesn’t need to export democracy, it needs to rehabilitate the family.
You set an example in everything you do. Every work of the mind is poetry first, the expression of the ideal. If you hope to live among people who live up to your standards, cultivate them – by cultivating the … Continue reading
Ordinary men in the modern West feel disposable. This is an atrocity you can do something about.
The worst of awful fates – the tornado leveled the town – is made benedic by men digging in to clean up and rebuild.The story behind every other story in the news is fatherhood. Spree killers, as we’ve discussed, are … Continue reading
How to do better – in art, in life, in everything: Scrap the first two acts and swap in a happy ending.
When I talk about the arc of a story, I don’t think I mean what everyone else means. What I mean is literally an arc, a visualization of the ideas of benedy and maledy in the simplest possible expression: I … Continue reading
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
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
Greg Swann speaks: An extended interview with me in Orlando from August of 2013.
Orlando, where you can almost always find a footing.In August of 2013, Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention brought me to Orlando to do a video interview. I stayed for a month, for my own purposes, but the flights were … Continue reading
Who is @WhoIsAlexJacob and how does putting Alex Trebek on tilt on @Jeopardy advance the cause of #liberty?
Revenge of the Nerd: “Hate me harder so I can win even more.”Life is a benedy, y’all, and the only newspaper-news worth attending to is good news. The best news in the week just past? Poker pro and currency trader … Continue reading