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Veron Graham - who has written 85 posts on Explore Truth.

Thanks for reading! My name is Veron Graham, and I am a writer, and the life long explorer behind this experiment called Explore Truth. My goal is to create safe places of exploration & connection for those who are wrestling with life's big questions, re-examining religious assumptions, and who take an unconventional approach to their lives and careers.

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Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die Part 2

13 August 2010

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Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die Part 2

In part 1 of my post: Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die, I shared how I go about narrowing in on the 50 things I’d like to do before I die. I emphased beginning this process by developing your own Personal Mission Statement There are, however, a few more things [...]

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Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die

9 August 2010

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Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die

Close your eyes. Really..try it(after you read the next few lines). Close them and imagine that you are 80 years old, and you are with your family, a few close friends, around a table decorated with your favorite food. People are smiling and laughter thickens the air around you ...Hmmm...I'm thinking mexican, italian, or better still something curried, piled high on my plate, provided all your teetth still work. But this is your vision.....The sun is quietly setting outside the window behind you, and as you glance at the latest addition to your grandchildren tugging at the hem of your pant leg, you think to yourself... Well... What exactly to you imagine you will think to yourself?

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Living In A Sports Crazy World

8 August 2010

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Living In A Sports Crazy World

I know I’m going to sound a bit crazy for saying this. But the sports obsession in the USA and the world for that matter is out of control!

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Just How It Feels(Sometimes)

5 August 2010

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Just How It Feels(Sometimes)

I heard a commercial the other day for a drug called cymbalta.  It claimed that if you were feeling grief, guilt, or pain, that you might be a candidate for this drug.  I don’t know about you, but depression commercials make me angry.  But that’s another story.  The commercial had me thinking. The last few [...]

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Thoughts on Commercial Hip Hop & The New Roots Album

7 July 2010

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Thoughts on Commercial Hip Hop & The New Roots Album

Ever since Slick Rick told us his children’s story, and even more so when Tupac dropped his Grammy-nominated, All Eyes on Me album, with tales of the “Thug Lifestyle”, and California Love, I’ve been smitten by the Hip hop genre. And for someone who grew up in a relatively middle class upbringing, with stints in [...]

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Why I Half Believe In God

5 July 2010

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Why I Half Believe In God

It’s one thing to gaze sanctimoniously over a church hymnal and speak about the reality of God, but its entirely another thing to look at pictures of flat bed trucks piled high with the mud caked, silent, naked bodies of children, and ask the question.

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Conspiracy to Kill Your Brain

28 June 2010

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Conspiracy to Kill Your Brain

What do we really know? Do we understand how money really works?  Do we really understand how our government is run?  Do we really know what’s in the food we are eating?  Do we even fully understand all the religious rituals we follow and where they came from? My brother and I were having a [...]

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Escaping The In-Between Life(If Possible)

15 June 2010

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Escaping The In-Between Life(If Possible)

I’ve been thinking a lot about Faith lately. The proposition that suggest there is a dimension outside of our physical world, where a real Creator, or divine entity interacts with humanity. I’ve also been thinking about the things that get in the way of fully and firmly settling if this dimension exist. Saying you believe [...]

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Marrying Style & Substance

25 May 2010

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Marrying Style & Substance

I guess everyone can relate to going through phases in life. Some periods you reflect upon seem so distant and unlike anything you would ever consider doing now. The journey of life. In highschool, style was high on my list of priorities, or at least what I then defined style to be.  Now, the thought [...]

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Are You A Control Freak?

16 May 2010

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Are You A Control Freak?

I used to get so excited I could practically see it before it even happened. I’d walk through the front door into the living room, look around at the windows, the door frame, quickly inspect the perimeter of the home before beginning...

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