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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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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!
Thriving lessons: First you have to turn around…
This is the homily from my first service for The Church of Splendor with all the church business cut out. This is a philosophically ambitious argument about moral ambition, an equally-opportunisitical offender, a thoroughgoing take-down – and rebuilding – of … Continue reading
Don’t like the world the way it is? I can show you how to change everything in five years.
You give me 99 seconds, I’ll give you a brand new world… This is from my first service for The Church of Splendor. If you want to see the whole argument, go here.
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
Introduction to The Church of Splendor: Let’s do something different.
This is the opening sequence from my first service for The Church of Splendor: If you want to see the whole argument, go here.
The Church of Splendor: What should a morally-ambitious person do?
I keep talking about starting an atheist church. Here I am, starting one. My goal is to do this live on Saturday afternoons from a congenial bar, but Sunday mornings are a churchy enough time of day to start with. … Continue reading
My value proposition – to you – and what you need to do about it.
I’ve got the Phoenix by the wings and we can fly where we want to go.Tambako the Jaguar / Foter / CC BY-ND If you have to tell a man what he’s seeing, it’s not there, not for him. In … Continue reading
A self-adoration film festival for #ValentinesDay: The path to everything is paved with #poetry.
You are lovable from the inside out. Respond accordingly.seyed mostafa zamani / Foter / CC BY Write the first poem of a better marriage for the two of you: Your marriage isn’t that strong? Here’s why: To get everything the … 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
Marxism’s greatest triumph is convincing you that is it not ubiquitous.
Secrecy and a lazy, self-willed ignorance are their weapons. Transparency and blinding illumination are ours. graftedno1 / Foter / CC BY-ND There are three types of Marxists in the world: 1. People who don’t know they’re regurgitating Marxist dogma, as … Continue reading
The libertarian stand on gay marriage? Get rid of the marriage laws – and keep your eye on the ball.
If you aren’t evangelizing egoism, you’re either spinning your wheels, at best, or you are pathetically snarking with the other losers at the web-equivalent of the 7-Eleven parking lot.As a hat tip to my friend Judah Hoover, I will start … Continue reading
The Runaway Minivan: Families fail when fathers won’t lead.
Why is your family failing? In the overwhelming number of normal marriages, the process will have begun when dad stopped actively driving the relationship. All sorts of other ugly stuff will happen along the way, but all of this is … Continue reading
If you want or your ailing Grandma dead, kill her yourself.
If you want Terri Schiavo – or your ailing Grandma – dead, then kill her yourself. But call things by their right names. The act is murder. The actor is a murderer. And the victim is not ever a volunteer.h.koppdelaney … Continue reading
Reds.
I can think of almost nothing in the lives of ordinary Americans, nothing that is ‘organized’ or ‘official’, that is not thoroughly steeped in Marxism.˙Cаvin 〄 / Foter.com / CC BY [I wrote this essay in 2002, and, of course, … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: Mastering something difficult is egoism in action.
Me and my girl Cherry Bomb making our first movie of the New Year: In the video, I am reflecting on my end-of-year essay on mastering something difficult this year: If you apply yourself to doing what you have always … Continue reading