Category Archives: Pollyanna Principles

What will our values look like in action?

It’s been an intense and energizing few days, exploring with a pair of brilliant visionary strategists with whom every exploration seems to lead to even more exploration. The question that arose early in our time together was this: “How can we support each other’s work in as integrated a fashion as possible?” The wording of… Continue Reading

Anger, Social Change and a Major “Aha”

Last week, an incident involving Rush Limbaugh, Robert Egger, a YouTube video and a small hew and cry led to my blog question asking, “Where, if at all, is the place for anger in social change?” The responses were so rich – I encourage you to read them in their entirety here. Several things became… Continue Reading

Human Nature?

As I’ve been settling into 6 weeks of writing and thinking and being, this chapter from The Pollyanna Principles has been almost haunting me.  And I’m thinking perhaps the best way to purge it is to share it here and invite conversation, to see just why this thought is following me. ********* Our Animal Nature… Continue Reading