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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.
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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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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
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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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Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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- 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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You say: “Everything is new to a child!” #ThriversEd says: “First impressions are lasting.”
Everything is new to a child? You bet. Better still, first impressions are lasting. It’s daft to teach bad habits-of-mind to kids by negligent default, but it is very wise to teach them how to thrive instead.Photo by: Chad Hutto“Everything … Continue reading
Why would anyone play volleyball without a net? How PEAK performance leads to peak humanity.
Q: What do you get when you play volleyball without a net?A: Better.Photo by: Hanna NorlinI wrote the other day about ThriversEd as “a wide-open volleyball-without-a-net experience.” If you can imagine playing volleyball without a net, what would be the … Continue reading
A big-picture picture of ThriversEd: A talk-show for toddlers, stone soup with marshmallows.
What is ThriversEd? It’s a new way to play. Toddlers who master it will play better at everything – for life.Photo by: yorkdI wrote this morning about the PEAK scoring matrix, which is a critical piece of the ThriversEd idea. … Continue reading
The DISC of birth order: Each new child fills what is then the biggest hole in your family.
That’s right. I am just who you were expecting!Photo by: JayThere’s an article on leadership and birth order at the Atlantic this morning, but I haven’t read it. It’s behind a paywall, and paying for Marxism is not just double-suicide, … Continue reading
Donald #Trump is Prince Hal, not Henry V. Here’s how you can spot the tells.
Cleaning up this mess? Now that would be women’s work.Once more unto the breach: This weekend’s events demonstrate that newly-anointed President Donald Trump is an Incandescent temperament, not a Driven personality. (Say whuuut? If you’re new, here’s the Cliff’s Notes … Continue reading
Making a #MyKindOfBenedy-making machine.
Like everything else, the art of romance is upside down. Righting it is simply a matter of demonstrating why well-working real-life romances work so well: Because there is a man in charge.Photo by: Andrew CrumpA while ago I wrote about … Continue reading
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
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
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
For Moms on Mother’s Day: The best way to express your motherhood? Stand by your man.
What’s most worth celebrating on Mother’s Day? Fatherhood.Photo by: Claudia HeidelbergerThis is true: Everything that is wrong with everything is wrong because the remnants of Western Civilization have spent the last 200 years undermining fatherhood. This is not a new … Continue reading
How science “peer-reviewed” itself into a cargo cult of unreliability.
“Why in the world would smarmy hucksters gull the gullible just for a government paycheck? That could never happen!”Photo by: GoToVanThe extract shown below is from a much longer essay called Scientific Regress. It documents a number of the reasons … Continue reading
The DISC of #Trump – why he is a thug and why he will grow evermore thuggish.
This is what a child’s face looks like when he realizes his father will not yield to his affected display of infinite pain. Within his home, Fred Trump was the Irreproachable. What did that make troublesome young Donald?I know how … Continue reading
A brief introduction to the assbackwardness of everything: Finding our way back to the garden of hope.
The Cautious cannot hope for the prosperity of the future, because they are too busy lamenting the losses of the past.Photo by: BrandonTo refuse to think is to refuse to live. Accordingly, if you’re not studying me, you are wasting … Continue reading
To teach is to lead. How to lead bright kids to a brighter future.
Self-adoration is the mental state that results from habituated excellence – from consistently setting and eclipsing high standards.Shanghai Daddy via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND A question from David Brodie, a man I much admire: I was wondering how you would … Continue reading
Translating multiculturalism: Tolerant means negligent. Diligent means exterminated. We can do better than that.
Too many chiefs? Not for long…Photo by: Zechariah JudyOne line from Shyly’s delight: A Driven who is not in charge of something important to him will be disruptive – and eventually destructive. To be rational is to be rational about … Continue reading