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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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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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The Cautious and Incandescent temperaments are wonderful. Just don’t bring them home.
If you want more and deeper storgic relationships, they’re made out of your time, your presence and your whole-hearted, open-hearted commitment.Photo by: Alosh BennettAfter yesterday’s news, you might think I’m down on the Cautious and Incandescent DISC temperaments. There’s some … Continue reading
Q: Why does nothing ever seem to change? A: All you’re trying to change is nothing.
How do people know conservatives favor reptilian empathy?Image by: Derek BridgesTrump can’t win. The GOP-majority Congress can’t win. The Tea Party can’t win. The amassed roar of redneck rage can’t win. How is it that the majority can’t win anything? I can … Continue reading
What’s the secret to raising generation after generation of great families? The right map.
Us against the world?This is how it’s done.The only families who reliably raise great families – good kids who grow up to raise good kids – are what I call Testudo families: Dad has persuaded everyone in the family to … Continue reading
Habituating reliability: The curse of the unreliable Dutch Uncle – and how to cure it.
Mutiny is the reliable proxy signal of unreliable leadership.Photo by: Javonni ChristopherThere is a category of cinema we might as well call the dutch uncle movie. (Yes, it is taxing to talk to me, since the same terms come up … Continue reading
Why do children rebel so comprehensively against schooling? Why do rape victims fight back?
If you read my magnum opus yesterday, you know a lot more about ThriversEd than you did before. Here’s something I figured out only later: Schooling : Education :: Rape : Love-making The way we’ve done schooling so far – … 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
How I justify my long-standing policy of racial profiling.
If we should judge people by the content of their character, the black middle-class is getting screwed.dbking / Foter / CC BY One of the more repellent tropes of race relations, by me, is the deeply earnest white guy who … Continue reading
Too much bad news, bunkie? Look out for your own with the dollar store sex toy challenge.
When the kids are away, dad and mom should make time to play.Church Sunday, to cleanse the palate of all that news, a fun way to make the most of your marriage:
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
Redemption rocks for everyone in “Begin Again” – #MyKindOfBenedy.
Keira Knightley charms as a jilted song-writer reluctantly effecting musically-disruptive retribution with a back-from-the-abyss record company exec played by Mark Ruffalo in Begin Again – very much #MyKindOfBenedy.Begin Again, currently Netflixable, is everything I look for in a benedy, a … Continue reading
The purpose of life is life, and, accordingly, the ideal human being is the ideal mate.
We better the world by our every increase.Photo by: NattuWe best express our nature as human beings by best expressing our nature as rational, choosing organisms. Accordingly the ideal human being is the person who best realizes everything that it … Continue reading