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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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More by Greg Swann
FREE Willie
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.
Print | Kindle
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
Print | Kindle
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.
Category Archives: Poetry and fiction
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
Oxford’s Torment: The Latest Chapter in the Shakespeare Mystery.
If the rose were a pose, how sweet would that smell?The enduring mystery of William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, has become a little less mysterious. It may be that we can never fully plumb the genius of our ever-living Bard, … 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
From The Unfallen: Kiss me…
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com. kiss me your glory i kiss you my joy kiss me your giggling girlishness i kiss you my mannish boy kiss me your tickling i kiss you my laughter kiss … Continue reading
#MyKindOfBenedy at the end of the alphabet: Cultivating romance in the weeds of GenXYZ irony.
He’s forty and can’t figure out how to shave or do laundry, but, given enough time and tutelage, even he can figure out how to be a grown-up man.Young people are screwed – almost always only in the bad way. … Continue reading