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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
Jon Favreau’s “Chef” wins my vote as an exemplary benedy, a comedy that makes everyone better.
If you like the idea of good people working hard and winning, “Chef” will make a hearty meal for your soul.For the past few years I’ve been bitching at the would-be progenitors of a so-called ‘conservative culture,’ pointing that an … Continue reading
Digging into a sexy love poem to get a handle on active, imagic, metaphor-rich writing.
My 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.Forgive me my vanity, but I want to dig into the … Continue reading
Uncle Willie’s manifesto: If the words aren’t worth etching into stone, get someone else to write them.
Authors die, but their ideas need not. I am vain enough to declare that I lack the everyday flavor of authorial vanity, but I more than make up for that with the other kind. There is no place for me … Continue reading
Love among The Unfallen at every wavelength of heaven’s light.
Today is the last day to get The Unfallen – my rom-com novel with real romance and real comedy – for free. Invest yourself in this extract, if you like, or just snag the book while it’s free. This is … Continue reading
Devin’s devotion: “We are locked together, locked like the links of that chain.”
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.Loki’s Love Letters are prime choice LadyPorn for this reason: I am writing a man’s kind of love-making from a man’s point of view – while tickling every fancy that … Continue reading
A comic romp of love, sex and philosophy: My Kindle novel The Unfallen is FREE right now.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy … Continue reading
To whomever is shopping me on conservative art: Here’s a shopping list.
What art will change minds and lives and votes?Photo by: Dmitry KichenkoI’ve been trying for a year now to engage a debate on ‘conservative’ art – where to me ‘conservative’ means pro-egoistic and therefore anti-authoritarian. One of the troubles with … Continue reading
Celebrating my second quarter: Redeeming Western Civilization by redeeming fatherhood.
Hauling marriage back from the abyss – with a refreshing informality and a cacophonous guitar.I’m having a great year. Someday that will matter to more than just a few people, but that doesn’t make any difference now. What matters is … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: Loving Cathleen – The 57 second book trailer
“There is no better incentive to staying on the path to Splendor than to marry someone you have to live up to.”I’m playing hooky from The Church of Splendor this Sunday so I can commune anniversarily with my wife. This … Continue reading