Food for Thought Fridays

ONE. My honky-tonk Jesus can hang on your antiseptic cross. Being human is not a binary proposition. Whitman said, “We contain multitudes.” Our cultural failing is white-washing complexity in the name of clarity. There’s a black Jesus that lives in Panama. Surely there are others. We can cling to the...

The Scavenger Hunt Called Life

14 Feb 2018

Faith, Intuition, Life lessons, Parenting, perseverance

Kelly Coveny

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There are three ways to play. Some people write out their own list and then set out to find everything on it. If and when the list gets fulfilled they either retire or write a new list and set out on that adventure. This approach requires self-discipline, perseverance and grit....

‘Practice Makes Perfect’ Gets a Makeover

15 Oct 2015

Food for Thought Fridays, Mediocrity, Perfection, Progress, Shoot for the Stars

Kelly Coveny

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Well, actually more like a make-under. Or whatever it is you’d call the new parenting movement in America wherein we stop over-promising results and rewarding mediocre behavior. Wherein we strip all the make-up away and take a good look at reality. Yikes. That could be seriously scary. I don’t know...

What is your rock?

08 Oct 2015

Balance, Be Who You Are, Do less, Do more, Food for Thought Fridays, What the World Needs, What You Love

Kelly Coveny

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What if you let it go? But what about anything worthwhile takes effort? What about the burden of responsibility? What about hard work pays off and… you find yourself in the struggle. Herein lies the dilemma. Do more? Do less? Push harder? Let go? We are each prone to doing...

DIY Soulscaping

24 Sep 2015

DIY, Food for Thought Fridays, Home, Joseph Campbell, Ski Trails, Soul

Kelly Coveny

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“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” – Joseph Campbell Quelle dragola! Seriously. There are so many cleanly groomed, cleverly named trails to go down. From Thrill Seeker Pass to Imperial Express to Deliverance, from Git-a-long Road to Enchanted Forest… The options are nearly endless–...

The MOST Inappropriate Question to Ask

17 Sep 2015

Children, food for, Parenting, Puppies, Training. Truths, Trolls

Kelly Coveny

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Better to suck it up and remain silent. Recently, (as in three days ago) we became proud owners of an eight-week-old golden retriever puppy, named by our son Leo, after the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane’s nickname, Zizou. There was a lot of discussion after about how to spell his...

Waiting Rooms

10 Sep 2015

Change, Food for Thought Fridays, Liminality, Molting, Transformation, Waiting Rooms

Kelly Coveny

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Oh, the liminality of it all… I happened upon this bodacious word several years ago. It means simply, the space between. So fundamental, and yet profoundly, provocatively comprehensive. There is the space between biopsy and diagnosis, between engaged and married, thought and action. There is the space between jobs, spouses,...

Do We Dream Big Enough?

03 Sep 2015

Dreams, Food for Thought Fridays, Gratitude, Parenting, Personal Integrity, Popularity, Seeing

Kelly Coveny

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Or within reason? Growing up, my dad was a dreamer: my mom a realist. He had fun. She worried. Most of the time things worked out remarkably well. Occasionally they were an epic catastrophe. It was a financial and emotional roller coaster. My dad, by his own account, achieved success...