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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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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
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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.
Category Archives: Poetry and fiction
The guard must always change, Tiger, but it shouldn’t have changed so soon.
Lamenting what might have been.Photo by: Chris WellnerTiger, Tiger, tell the treeth: Were you as good as Jordan Speith? Tiger, Tiger, speak the trayth: Should you have hewed more to your faith? Tiger, Tiger, say the tryth: You lost it … Continue reading
Telling @LOR3LE1 I love her with a one-two-three punch to #abortion – all as #MyKindOfBenedy.
I am proud to know you, @LOR3LE1. @LOR3LE1 follows me. I’ve never felt such visibility. To capture her could set me free from self-contained obscurity. So please don’t let’s drive her away. I am ebullient, not addle-pated. I am rich … Continue reading
Putting my mouth where my meaning is: Cultivating better adults by cultivating children better.
Just lately, I challenged y’all to change the world with better bedtime stories, so, for church this week, this is me holding up my end: Anastasia in the light and shadow – read aloud as a bedtime story. If you’re … Continue reading
My Thanksgiving gift – to me: Anastasia in the light and shadow as a bedtime storybook.
Changing the world, one bedtime story at a time. I built a printed-and-bound edition of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story Anastasia in the light and shadow. That much is for me: It’s my favorite of the Willie stories, and it’s … Continue reading
#MyKindOfBenedy: Why not “Why Not Me?” as a second-chance-at-love romantic comedy?
The Judds’ tune “Why Not Me?” was covered on The Voice tonight, and you might-could listen to it while we talk about it: The lyrics to the song answer the question in the headline: The song is The Chorus to … Continue reading
Sharing the gift of everyday benedy: Profitting from commercial exogamy the Shark Tank way.
Imagine local ‘Shark Tank’-like events: What better way to communicate the idea that hard work pays off than with an event devoted to making hard work pay off!I’m coming at the idea of benedy every way I can think of. … 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
#MyKindOfBenedy: How can something as silly as a movie make your life ever-better over time?
I am replacing the terms tragedy and comedy – with words that mean something.Photo by: Tim GreenJan Schlösser, bless his bits, asks this about last week’s video: Greg, would you mind giving some examples of narrative art that you would … Continue reading