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Truth Be Told Vol 2: Creativity and Misplaced Power

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 24, 20221 min read

Truth Be Told Vol 2: Creativity and Misplaced Power

“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 17, 20221 min read

Diggin’ on James Brown

Ya know the more things change The more they stay the same It may be a different age But I'm on the same page Cause one thing that I've...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 10, 20221 min read

Superman

In my dream I was invited to speak about Superman. I was billed as the premier authority – to be clear about my professional status in my...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 2, 20221 min read

Truth Be Told Vol. 4: Time Will Tell

“Time will tell… whether folks want to point and stare at the Black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the...

Truth Be Told Vol 3: Your Anxiety is Not My Problem

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 27, 20221 min read

Truth Be Told Vol 3: Your Anxiety is Not My Problem

Not overfunctioning means not being a vessel for other people’s anxiety. That was my job in my family-of-origin. To absorb the psychic...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 19, 20221 min read

I’ll Be Back for You

I am standing on the platform of the A train in Manhattan. My mother is with me. It’s winter. I am 8 years old, and I’m wearing the navy...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 13, 20221 min read

Film Festival #4: AlphaGo

With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 7, 20223 min read

Recipe for a César Vallejo Poem

In 2007 I took a poetry writing course at the Omega Institute for Holistic Health in Rhinebeck, New York. My key takeaway from that...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 27, 20222 min read

If You Do it for Them, Do it for You

Still in my 20s, my first job right out of graduate school was at a well-respected Fortune 50 corporation. I worked hard my five years...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 21, 20221 min read

What He Already Knows

Gina is 18 years old, 5 foot 3 with cornrows. Seated on the couch next to her father, she’s trying to choose the right time to reveal...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 12, 20225 min read

Hell No, Love God

I sashayed into a midtown office seeking employment in 1983 at age 22. “How fast can you type?” came the question from the Manhattan...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 5, 20222 min read

Divide by Four

“Divide by Four?” Detective Morales looked up from his notes. “Yeah, that’s our inside joke about Mary Lou and her stories,” Reva said....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 30, 20221 min read

Ask Me Again

How I Overfunctioned: I repeatedly invited Betty to various social activities. She would repeatedly decline my invitation then say, “Ask...

Literary Fashion: Formula 5 Batch System Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 22, 20221 min read

Literary Fashion: Formula 5 Batch System Writing

Reading, writing, clothing design, playing with ideas. My Literary Fashion series combines them all. First on the “catwalk” is Formula 5:...

Short Film Festival #3: Forever by Joyce Sherri

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 15, 20221 min read

Short Film Festival #3: Forever by Joyce Sherri

An interracial couple’s love is tested when they fall victim to a hate crime. Watch on YouTube ◊ ◊ ◊ About filmmaker Joyce Sherri

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 10, 20222 min read

100 Years from Now No One Will Care

During my Internet travels I came across a 2017 blog post by Sweden-based photographer Micael Widell. The title: Who will remember you in...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 2, 20221 min read

How to Ruin Your Soul

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Rumi

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 26, 20212 min read

LEAP

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. ...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 19, 20211 min read

Truth Be Told Vol 1: It’s Your Life

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 12, 20212 min read

Just the Two of Us

Every December Daddy took the box down from the top closet shelf. I sat on our blue carpeted living room floor to separate the artificial...