Darrell Grizzle, Grateful Bear
- Age: 47
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Capricorn
- Zodiac Year: Ox
- Industry: Consulting
- Occupation: Licensed Professional Counselor
- Location: Marietta : Georgia : United States
About Me
I'm an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), in private practice in Marietta & Canton, Georgia. I'm an Emergent Episcopalian (Anglimergent) who has been ordained as a minister and spiritual caregiver by an interfaith healing ministry. My writings on spirituality have been published in Whosoever and several other magazines. I live in Marietta with my mystical cat Kato and way too many books.
Interests
- hanging out with friends in coffeehouses
- trail-walking in the mountains and Civil War battlefields
- floating in the ocean
- reading banned books
- walking the labyrinth
- dancing with Sufis
- tree hugging
- blogging
- deconstructing and destabilizing metanarratives
- using Tarot cards to spark intuition (especially The Tarot of Prague)
- meditating with the cat
Favorite Movies
- Lord of the Rings
- Harold and Maude
- The Graduate
- Priest
- Ordinary People
- I Heart Huckabees
- The Nines
- Dogma
- Victor/Victoria
- Ed Wood
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
- Tous les Matins du Monde
- Gone with the Wind
- old Barbara Stanwyck movies
- The Fountainhead
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Double Indemnity
- The Maltese Falcon
- Dracula (1931 with new score by Philip Glass & The Kronos Quartet)
- Turner Classic Movies
Favorite Music
- classic jazz [Coltrane Mingus Rollins Davis]
- Bruce Cockburn
- Grateful Dead
- String Cheese Incident
- Indigo Girls
- Wilco
- Sarah McLachlan
- Josh Joplin
- Sufjan Stevens
- Mark Heard
- David Crowder Band
- Third Day
- Nickel Creek
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Alanis Morissette
- Sam Phillips
- The White Stripes
- The Raconteurs
- Steve Earle
- Bob Dylan
- Santana
- Yusuf (Cat Stevens)
- U2
- REM
- The B-52's
- Arvo Pärt
- John Tavener
- Henryk Górecki
- Philip Glass
- Kronos Quartet
- Alan Hovhaness
Favorite Books
- Ecclesiastes
- Jonah
- Gospel of Thomas
- Gospel of Mary Magdalene
- Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
- Marcus Borg
- Matthew Fox
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Viktor Frankl
- The Denial of Death
- Ernest Becker
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Rumi
- Ibn 'Arabi
- the Sufi mystics
- The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
- The Sovereign Soul: Sufism - A Path for Today
- Phillip Gowins
- A New Kind of Christian
- A Generous Orthodoxy
- Brian McLaren
- The Irresistible Revolution
- Shane Claiborne
- Elaine Pagels
- Thomas Merton
- Alan Watts
- Meditations on the Tarot
- Flannery O'Connor
- Byron Herbert Reece
- Mary Oliver
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Garrison Keillor
- The Success Principles
- Jack Canfield
- Your Best Life Now
- Joel Osteen
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Poetry As Insurgent Art
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Richard Brautigan
- Allen Ginsberg
- the Beat writers
- Oscar Wilde
- Perry Mason
- Hard Case Crime
- mysteries
- Fahrenheit 451
- Ray Bradbury
- Dune
- Harry Potter
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