May 6th, 2010
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Lennie Appelquist If You Lose, Are You Really a Loser? Lennie Appelquist
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Winners are held in high regard and loses, well… It seems obvious – We compete to win – when you win, you get the prize. But sometimes you can win bigger by losing. What?! There are times to be competitive. Come on, we’ve all those moments when all we want to do is humiliate our [...]

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September 21st, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist Autumn in the Air Lennie Appelquist
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus As much as I love the Southern California Summers, Autumn always stirs a little something in my soul. It gets me thinking about chilly nights, harvests, fires in my wood stoves… What about the beach, shorts and sun. Seems like summer [...]

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July 25th, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist A Hummingbird Morning Lennie Appelquist
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Hummingbirds are found only in the western hemisphere, so they are absent from the traditional fairy tales, legends, and myths of European and African Americans. There is, however, a rich supply of stories about these tiny birds in Native American mythology. Mayan legend says that the Hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise who is [...]

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July 11th, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist The Magic of Bubbles Lennie Appelquist
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Do you remember the pure joy of blowing bubbles? When you do it as a “grown Up”, it’s still cool, isn’t it? Yep, sure is… What if someone figured out a way to make colored bubbles? Not each bubble reflecting the colors of the rainbow – but actual colored bubbles? Shimmering with all the colors [...]

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July 2nd, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist A Precious Life Lennie Appelquist
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This amazing poem by American Poet Mary Oliver showed up in my inbox today… Not only is it poignant and beautiful but it mirrors another quote (by Eleanor Roosevelt)  that I posted on Twitter today. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But Today is a gift, that’s why they call it the present!” If [...]

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April 19th, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist Are YOU Living Your Dream? Lennie Appelquist
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Dreams come in many shapes and sizes, don’t they? We all have them but do we really do enough to live into our dreams? Life is tricky. It requires negotiation and fearless navigation. The bills are due, the house needs work, and the kids need your attention. We seem to do all this at the [...]

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March 10th, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist My Travel Map Lennie Appelquist
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Thanks to 29Travels.com, I now have a travel map. Boy looking at it in this form sure makes me realize that there is still a whole lot of world still unexplored by me! If you want your own travel map, check out my new friend @ 29 Travels!

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February 22nd, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist A Touch of Class Lennie Appelquist
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Class… now isn’t that a topic? Class kind of goes along with grace. We can choose to walk through life gracefully or like the proverbial bull in the china shop. The choice is up to us. That’s really what it is isn’t it? A matter of choice? That leads me to a story I read [...]

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February 11th, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist Don’t Divorce Them! Lennie Appelquist
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Ken Starr – remember him? The guy who not only led the witch hunt against Bill Clinton but the guy who published his report online with salacious and explicit depictions of sexual acts online where kids could read it… Well, now he’s back, hiding behind the veil of morality to do everything he can to [...]

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January 31st, 2009
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Lennie Appelquist Abusers of Trust Lennie Appelquist
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First off this is NOT an attack on the Catholic Church, so please read on. The tone here is a little different today – because I am angry… Driving home yesterday, I heard, not one, but two stories about Catholic Priests found guilty of sexual molestation and abuse. The 1st involved a priest found guilty [...]

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