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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
“This is a love worth living. This is a love worth grailing for. This is a love worth living up to.”
Loving CathleenA Love To Live Up ToToday is my wedding anniversary, and today I am publishing a book – called Loving Cathleen – about how much I love my wife – about how big a man’s love can grow, and … Continue reading
A conservative counter-culture? How about an egoistic counter-revolution instead?
“Every conservative has a responsibility to support the rising counterculture.”Sez who?And: What for?Adam Bellow says Andrew Breitbart says Santa Claus told him to tell you to buy my books. Why not? If Bellow can channel Breitbart, putting words in a … Continue reading
“Loving Cathleen” comes out on Independence Day – but there’s a review copy just for you today.
“This is a love worth living.This is a love worth grailing for.This is a love worth living up to.”Loving CathleenA Love To Live Up Toavailable at Amazon.com.(Click image for large version.)I have a brand new book coming out Friday, Independence … Continue reading
Putting the independence back in Independence Day: “It’s not the people, it’s the idea.”
“He grabbed me by the hair and pulled my ear down to his mouth. He said, ‘It’s not the people, it’s the idea. The idea makes the people great, as great as they want to be.’ And right then the … Continue reading
What’s “good” #conservative #art? Ars gratia libertatis – art for #freedom’s sake.
There is nothing in a good “conservative” story that should repel a liberal reader.cindiann / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Clearly I’ve hit a nerve in my discussions of a more-ideal kind of “conservative” art: … Continue reading
@LibertyIsleMag made #conservative #art into just another Dairy Queen disappointment for me.
Unless you have a boat of your own, there is no liberty on an island…It’s late in the day. You’re hot, tired, cranky. Up ahead on the right there’s a Dairy Queen, and for every reason you should not go … Continue reading
Let’s have a real writing contest: Take a sad song and make it better.
How do you make a family whole when everyone in it is broken? Hollywood will pay big bucks for a compelling answer to that question.The PIX-JOCKEY (visual fantasist) / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) Officious … Continue reading
Getting #marriage so right that you manage to stay married all the way to the end of the day.
Want to stay married forever? Try staying married every day.When you hire an Irishman to speak, there are three words you never have to pay for. They’re not in my script, but you can hear them in the video of … Continue reading
The secret to human life in 11 minutes: To be is to do, but to do is to dance.
When are you living in Splendor? When you’re not doing anything else. Why don’t you live that way all the time?
Weddingsong: The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Marilee Johnson.
Click the image to download a PDF copy to print out and tape up on your own bathroom mirror.“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or … Continue reading
Why comedy matters: Understanding the art that will redeem human civilization.
“Have you filled out your ObamaCare paperwork, punk?”I’ve been on a tear about comedy lately, and it were well to be more explicit about what I mean. The issue is this: 1. Conservatives are aware that they are losing the … Continue reading
Rock Me Mama Egoism In Action: The link from art to human values and back.
Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption – simple stuff. This is egoism in action, me being me. This video connects directly to the … Continue reading