Grant Bakewell

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Gender Male
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation hospice chaplain and social worker (MSW)
Location Sacramento, California, United States
Introduction I am a chaplain, and social worker, for hospice patients and residents of skilled nursing and assisted living programs in the Sacramento area. I also assist in ministry to their families and the staff members of Eskaton senior services and VITAS hospice care in our region. I am a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Church, and the "One Bodhi Tree" Buddhist sangha of Sacramento.
Interests justice, peace, reconciliation, healing, --in all dimensions of human life: biological, psychosocial, racial-cultural, economic, political, spiritual.
Favorite Movies Ghandi, MK Ghandi in South Africa (Opera by Philip Glass), Schindler's List, Chocolat, Babette's Feast.
Favorite Music Classical (Early thru Modern), Jazz, Folk, World/"Ethnic", "new age", both traditional and contemporary chants & hymns.
Favorite Books The Bible, New Testament, Qu'ran, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita, Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Tipitaka, Guru Granth, sacred texts of the world's great faiths, Healing, Francis MacNutt, The Healing Light, Agnes Sanford, Healing Words, Larry Dossey Nonviolence: Jesus's Third Way, Walter Wink, writers and spiritual witnesses to the power and potential of nonviolence: from Tolstoy to Wangari Mathai.

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

For whom does true music praise? For whom does the true bell toll?