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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.
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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!
“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
Gratias tibi ago, #Manosphere.com. Who will be first among you to review #FathersDay?
Fathers: If you make your children’s world better, you’ll make everyone’s world better – your own first.Available at Amazon.com:Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband.More Father. More Man.I’ve been picked up as a linked blog by Manosphere.com, a boon for me. I’ve … Continue reading
A valentine for Cathleen: A love to live up to.
The best parts of the fully-human life are met with a smile, at a minimum – and a smile and kiss is even better.February 14, 2011I want to be the man she sees when she looks at me. That’s a … Continue reading
If you come to The 21 Convention in Tampa, you’ll see me – somewhere in the middle of the pack.
Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention is only doing one show this year – and it’s a killer. I’ll be there, but I’m afraid I might be outshone by this galaxy of talent: 1. Anthony Dream Johnson (unannounced) 2. Socrates … Continue reading
Physicists make another absurd, useless claim. Universe yawns. Life goes on as it should.
If it sounds likes bullshit, it’s good odds it is.By: Lauro Roger McAllisterThis is a silly article, but it’s actually wonderful news: It illustrates how little physicists actually know about the universe, and how much of what they say is … Continue reading
How to explain Ayn Rand’s late-life Social Security parasitism? “Old people make mistakes.”
*Please be sure to read the fine print.Wow. I ignored this last week, because this is obviously an ass-covering exercise. 1. Ayn Rand took Social Security. 2. She knew that was criminal. 3. As with her adultery, she invented an … Continue reading
“‘Sex-positive’ sex should leave you so scarred that you will put up even less resistance to it the next time.”
This is a chapter extracted from Father’s Day, an exploration of promiscuity and chastity in the context of marriage. Of all the people who should be celebrating this book – fathers, mothers, egoists, conservatives – the people who should be … Continue reading
Save the world in 3 quick ’n’ easy steps: Happier fathers, better children, global redemption.
Fathers: If you make your children’s world better, you’ll make everyone’s world better – your own first.Available at Amazon.com: Father’s Day: More Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.I am a man of such huge ambitions that I expect no … Continue reading
Women can’t fix #marriage and #family. Only men can. My new book “Father’s Day” shows how.
More married. More husband.More father. More man.I would love to excite your interest and incite your action: I want to save a few dozen-million marriages, and I need your help. Father’s Day will save marriages – it already is pre-release … Continue reading
What do spree-killings, #YesAllWomen and #abortion all have in common? Fatherlessness.
Could this be what hell looks like?By: *saxFrom today’s homily at The Church of Splendor, a discussion of the latest spree-killing in the context of the on-going dismantling of the family as a redoubt against the therapeutic state. I’m finishing … Continue reading
Verbs of virtue: If you want to change your life, change the way you think.
My favorite, judging by the way I use my time? I think.By: Jacob BøtterHere is a list of 575 verbs. If you put the word “I” in front of each one of them, and then follow through, you are defying … Continue reading
An atheist’s take on God’s Not Dead: Here’s to morally-serious cinema.
One of many brutal questions God’s Not Dead brings up along it’s way: What happens when a carousel girl gets cancer?I saw God’s Not Dead with Cathleen and I surprised myself by actually liking it. It’s baldly tendentious, as any … Continue reading
What’s the one thing the people you think you should emulate never do?
“My name is Loki. Who the hell are you?”They never follow any star but their own. Live your own life. No one can do it for you, but you can leave it too much undone worrying what someone else is … Continue reading
An epidemically childless Mother’s Day tells us what? No #father, no #family, no #future.
Which parent matters most to a thriving family? If you said, “Mom,” Karl Marx’s minions are smiling in your general direction. No mothers, no babies, to be sure. But self-responsible fathers are raised by self-responsible fathers. The marriage, and hence … Continue reading