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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.
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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!
Do you hope to save your loved ones from tyranny? First you have to turn around…
Tramps like us, everywhere else in the world, live in very grim prison cells and supplement their diets with captured insects. Our good fortune is not so much that our government is more free, but simply that its functionaries are … Continue reading
Random observations on the Sin City scene.
I haven’t been to Las Vegas for six years, and a lot has changed. There are things I am specifically watching for — Vegas is so much like Phoenix that it’s very instructive to do-the-deltas, to focus on the radical … Continue reading
Willie’s wager: Sun City, a new skein of Willie yarns, is going to make you cry.
Got teens? Among many other things, this book strives to redeem marriage and family for the generation of kids for whom stable families have been too rare.But it’ll be a cleansing cry, I promise. Sun City is the collection of … Continue reading
A little bit of honey cake for Desdemona as she makes her last escape.
Yes, it’s definitely dead dog month around here. I am much informed by the storgic love of dogs for their people, and I am much informed by dogs as such. This sequence of ideas dates from four years ago today, … Continue reading
Why I read Ibsen.
It is common to play Hedda as a neurotic, but I think a more correct reading is that she is a troll, a sprite, a spark of hell’s fire seeking ready tinder on the Earth.I grew up in a grimy … Continue reading
Redemption is egoism in action: My eBook “Janio at a Point” is yours free for the downloading.
Download a free eBook about the redemption of the ego – about Splendor.In February of 1988, I wrote a short book called Janio at a Point. It was written to be the epilogue of a much larger book, a 600-page … Continue reading
Reflections of the irresistible by way of one drop in an ocean of love.
That’s my best-beloved, Cathleen Collins. She thinks I’m about to tease her. She’s right.I’ve been thinking lately about the idea of irresistibility — this, plausibly, because I get hot for all absolute states — when I blessed my argument with … Continue reading
The song of the self.
You can choose the light or the darkness, or you can run from one to the other, wasting your life in a lather of dithering. But you cannot be alive as a human being and yet, somehow, choose not to … Continue reading
Tease your lover by text — and drive the Feds crazy doing it.
“EF or FF?” Putting hot-sauce on hamburger, making an adventure of the mundane.Last week Uncle Willie wrote about the kinds of playful games loving married couples can carry out over years or decades. This I totally get. I am always … Continue reading
Why would anyone get married? To live the highest expressions of Splendor in the fully-human life.
To be together is an accident of location. To be committed to each other and to the things you make together is a marriage.Jeff Belmonte / Foter.com / CC BY Dr. Helen asked something like this at the start of … Continue reading
When the New Left becomes the Old Reich, it’s time to get a gun.
When the free press is outlawed — it’s time to get a gun.The Feds banned the plans for the 3D printed gun yesterday. This is an obvious violation of the First Amendment, and it will be shot down by the … Continue reading
Going Galt with style: By choosing so admirably, Richard Nikoley sets a good example for us all.
My friend, Richard Nikoley, showing you what a Randian hero looks like in real life: I listened to the state collector’s heartfelt, condescending admonishments, including how much he’d so have preferred to work it out, had I just called him … Continue reading
Celebrating the first year of Man Alive!: There is more to come…
Happy Birthday, Man Alive!bernat… / Birthday Photos / CC BY-NC-ND At Easter, I traded email with my father about the poetry of song-writing. I write about that stuff, of course — less than I might, but publicly. I write everything … Continue reading
Nudity is a dumb argument, but at least the Femen babes get naked for justice – and they have waists!
No masters, no slaves.A compelling argument memorably made.Oh, you know you’ll look: Femen Stages a ‘Topless Jihad’ from The Atlantic: Earlier today, members of Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged protests across Europe as they called for a “topless jihad.” The … Continue reading
The irony of debating marriage at the Supreme Court? The family is broken – and thugs in robes won’t fix it.
Do not be deceived. Apparently, homosexuals are the only Americans left who want to get married.Makena G / Love Photos / CC BY-NC-ND It’s funny, in a way, that we are wasting so much psychic energy debating gay marriage. For … Continue reading