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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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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
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: Splendor!
Donald #Trump’s fatal conceit? You can’t fake leadership.
You were expecting Henry V? More fool you.What cost Donald Trump Iowa? The man is a phony – and everyone knows it. I’ve written too much about this loser already, and I expect there will be more to be heard … Continue reading
The Rancor-Free Marriage: Deploying better empathy strategies to be most-happily wed.
A key to our happy marriage is my desire to keep my Cathleen looking on me that way.How is that you can get along so perfectly with your dog or cat, when there is so much ongoing conflict in your … Continue reading
Chunkybutt Barbie? Really? In that case, here are some more ideas for anti-ideal inaction figures.
Meet Chunkybutt Barbie. If you think she’s fat now, watch how she blows up when you put a ring on her.There’s a new Barbie down at the mall – and hot she is not. In an attempt to quiet the … Continue reading
What’s even better than rancor management? How about avoiding rancor altogether – supplanting it with delight?
The people around you are open books. I can teach you how to read.Sunday’s Church of Splendor homily takes us once beyond rancor management: By apprehending the empathy strategies of the people around you, you can engineer your social groups … Continue reading
Ashes of Ebony: Saying goodbye to the craziest cat we’ve ever loved.
Just the seventeen of us sixteen years ago. Ebony is the cat in Meredith’s arms, top-left.Of all the crazy cats we’ve ever known, she was by far the craziest, and I can prove that proposition with just one example: She … Continue reading
Want to dump #Trump? You give me three minutes, I’ll give you Donald Trump’s Achilles heel.
A short clip from yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily, how to make Donald J. Trump blow up in public like the fat, needy pussy he is: The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a … Continue reading
Cold-blooded vengeance: Exposing Curt Doolittle’s – and libertarianism’s – inner-thug.
Dominance by relentless vindictive retribution: The naked essence of Curt Doolittle’s pathetic impotence on full display. When people are gracious enough to show you who they are, don’t spurn that gift – learn from it.Curt Doolittle has something to prove, … Continue reading
Rancor Management 099: The anatomy of recurring conflict.
Why do you have the same fights over and over? What can you do differently from now on?Photo by: Soukéïna FELICIANNEWhy do you have the same disputes with the same people in the same way every time? What can you … Continue reading
The actual soul of wit: Moral philosophy in one algorithm.
From October 11, 2015. RTFM or see the movie.
The secret to lifelong human happiness is simple: Stay married.
The actual, practical, day-to-day solution to the problem of lifelong human happiness: Stay married.Photo by: renee.I pay particular attention to the very young and the very old. I like children because they have not yet learned how to lie comprehensively. Abstract … Continue reading
For Luke Williams, here’s a complimentary grenade to lob into your Non-Agression Principle debate.
“Just remember this: If the rationale is almost impossible to read, it can’t be a cargo cult!”Photo by: barkThe Non-Agression Principle (NAP) is merely a sentiment, much alike to the Golden Rule. But it is (putatively) socially-restrictive, where “do-unto-others” is … Continue reading
A brief introduction to the assbackwardness of everything: Finding our way back to the garden of hope.
The Cautious cannot hope for the prosperity of the future, because they are too busy lamenting the losses of the past.Photo by: BrandonTo refuse to think is to refuse to live. Accordingly, if you’re not studying me, you are wasting … Continue reading
Using emotions as tools of cognition: Pain is nature’s way of telling you you’re getting something wrong.
’Tards gonna ’tard. Don’t let them do it to you – and don’t do it with them!Photo by: JD HancockI’ve spent six months, now, pummeling The Ayn Rand Institute. This is precisely as fair as Donald Trump picking on poor, … Continue reading
The answer to the Islamorape of the Eurobabes? The very, very Israeli Krav Maga.
When is a woman safe? When she can kill with more than her good looks.Photo by: Denise MahoneyAn unmarried emancipated woman is a de facto man until she marries: She eradicates her own infestations. She cannot have delegated her self-defense … Continue reading
A raucous video podcast about the manly art of manliness: “It’s not growth if it’s not painful.”
Socrates, Steve Mayeda and me – having fun with staccato iconoclasm. Note and disclaimer: Speaker Greg Swann is no longer affiliated with The 21 Convention or 21 Studios in any ongoing capacity. Urf. I don’t hate it that I make … Continue reading