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Fredrick Swan

Goodreads Author

Born

Great Lakes region, The United States

Website

http://www.fredrickswan.com/

Twitter

FFSwan

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, Art

Member Since

August 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadscomfredrickswan

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Fredrick Swan is an artist and an author whose career has encompassed
years of working as a child and family counselor, an individual therapist
and serving as a field instructor at a graduate school of social work.

Aware that he is one of the few people on earth who has lived to explore the meaning of their own death in the context of their life, he is currently writing a blog to help others reimagine their lives.

He writes and paints beside a creek just outside the diverse river port city of Portland, Oregon. The father of four, his art work and blog can be found at www.fredrickswan.com. ...more

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Fredrick Swan's Blog

Stuffins

I saw this seed head today in front of a house from which a man was shouting apparently to the
sky. I took a chance and waved and getting his attention I asked him if he minded if I took a picture of seed pod. He stopped shouting and said "Sure, but only one and thanks for asking." He then looked away from me and back up
at the sky and said, "I'm sorry." The seed pod and the man reminded m

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Fredrick Swan’s books

Average rating: 4.36 · 25 ratings · 12 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Parentheses: A Memoir of My Life Before, During and After My Death 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parentheses: A memoir of my life before, during and after my death 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fredrick’s Quotes

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

tags: flood, river, time, water, words

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