Ernesto Tinajero
- Location
- Spokane Valley, Washington, USA
- Birthday
- July 23
- Title
- Life and Faith
- Bio
- Pastor and Christian writer
MY RECENT POSTS
- Mother's Day Poem for My Wife
May 08, 2013 12:41PM - I love Winnie Cooper
April 24, 2013 02:21PM - Charles Bukowski, Poet of the
Loveless
March 11, 2013 04:32PM - Shaping Love beyond Legalism
February 26, 2013 12:56PM - God rides the Bus
February 21, 2013 05:05PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Stathi,
Thanks
for the encouragement.”
May 09, 2013 11:11AM - “Thank you for comments.
I do like that song. Also, on
the
atheist part, Jesus,
wh…”
February 25, 2013 02:40PM - “When I met him in the
early nineties in Aspen, I was
left
with the answer to
the…”
May 14, 2012 07:00PM - “I love reading Steve
Almond's take down of his
Republican
critics. The
attacks he…”
April 23, 2012 03:57PM - “The question, serious as
it is unasked, how do we
place
ourselves above others.
O…”
April 09, 2012 11:45AM
Ernesto Tinajero's Links
MAY 8, 2013 12:42PM
Mother's Day Poem for My Wife
Here is one my first attempts at Video Poem. The theme I was
working is how words are first learned before speaking them. I
admire how my wife is so bonded with our four year old. Is there
anything stronger than love between mother and toddler? Read full post »
APRIL 24, 2013 2:21PM
I love Winnie Cooper
Actually, I don't love Winnie Cooper, but I thought the writing of
this post on the New Yorker was so good that I had
to share. The bitter sugar of nostalgia mixed with a longing. What
Winnie represented is possibility in the promise of the future. We
all grew up with…
MARCH 11, 2013 4:32PM
Charles Bukowski, Poet of the Loveless
His name materialized out of the breath of a Christian who I
respect and love. It caught me by surprise, as I had not heard this
poet's name in a long time. Charles
Bukowski, what a strange name to come from such a committed
Christian. My friend, a…
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 12:56PM
Shaping Love beyond Legalism
Her eyes clouded ash gray as she told her story. A deep
sadness would invade her spirit; a melancholy could command her for
days. She was a mother and a wife of a successful doctor. All her
needs were met, but some days the darkness descended upon her. Her
church, one…
FEBRUARY 21, 2013 5:05PM
God rides the Bus
The wiring vines of our bus routes unite Spokane. These are the
branches by which our poor move through our town for their
business. My eyesight and lack of depth perception has had me
traveling through these vines for years in journeys from work to
home.
Walking and riding a city’s mass…
Walking and riding a city’s mass…
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 11:14AM
The Ballad of Mitt
The Ballad of Mitt
Once their was a serious candidate for president.
Push by a bunch buffoons in the Primary,
he had to accept many political positions of silliness.
When finally bumped off the last fool, a Political hack from PA,
he though he could shake his crumpling image clean.
Etch-a-sketch, it was…
Once their was a serious candidate for president.
Push by a bunch buffoons in the Primary,
he had to accept many political positions of silliness.
When finally bumped off the last fool, a Political hack from PA,
he though he could shake his crumpling image clean.
Etch-a-sketch, it was…
MAY 2, 2012 4:19PM
The Price of Fame
Last week was the penny drive for the Guild School.Strange the effect of media. Before we agreed to have our son on billboards, TV and the Internet, people unknown to us would come by and give us their unwanted advice as a way of saying Hello. One guy came up…
APRIL 23, 2012 2:38PM
Tra, tra, tra ... Live for Today
An argument broke out between them, though argument maybe rather too harsh a word. The two twenty something artists were much to attracted to each other’s spirit and work to have a fight or argument. Sarah, tall driven to succeed, has an aesthetic of early post-impressionistic deadhead. Her art… Read full post »
My Spokane Bus riding adventures
continue, though I am not sure what to make of this one. As I
boarded the bus near my work, I go to the back of the bus and find
a seat close to the back row.… Read full post »
APRIL 19, 2012 12:43PM
The Driving Will to Power on the Commute home
My Spokane Bus riding adventures continue, though I am not sure what to make of this one. As I boarded the bus near my work, I go to the back of the bus and find a seat close to the back row. The part of the bus is sparse of people,… Read full post »
APRIL 18, 2012 12:55PM
Come closer... I have a secret
I just posted this review of Frank Warren's project of posting secrets. The point of my post is that we all need a place that is both safe and honest to reveal ourselves before the world. Here is Frank's Ted Talk.
Come closer, I have a secret. I have heard this many
…
APRIL 10, 2012 6:59PM
The Two Economies, David Brooks and his dreams of red Velvet Swings
The Republicans are ones, he leaps/…
APRIL 10, 2012 5:53PM
Theosis
Theosis - An Easter Experience
My hands shadow the world
in their movement before the light.
The light, my hands, and the blocked
light are connected, like the plastic
Easter eggs filled with chocolate.
God on a cross. God dead.
God in the garden, weaken
by the returning life. Jesus
called Mary, keepin/…
APRIL 3, 2012 11:03AM
Exercises Kindness, Justice and Righteousness on EARTH
I wrote during the whole Health Care debate about the need for providing health care for our poor. Surprising to people, I wrote as a committed Christian. I wrote that health care was not only a good thing to do, but a Biblical mandate. It was also more than a political… Read full post »
MARCH 2, 2012 8:37AM
Cool Being An Unstable Condition
Cool Being An Unstable Condition
on the commute home
The woman, budding young in her kelly green,
purple and yellow striped tights, accessorized
by light pink kakis, grimaces in deep silence
from her day. Perched up on the moving
bus, she waits for her stop. She pulls the cord.
The bell dings. Red light…
on the commute home
The woman, budding young in her kelly green,
purple and yellow striped tights, accessorized
by light pink kakis, grimaces in deep silence
from her day. Perched up on the moving
bus, she waits for her stop. She pulls the cord.
The bell dings. Red light…
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 1:57PM
Be happy
Here is a riddle.
Ask most people what they want out of life and what do they answer? Happiness!
It’s common both in the amount of times you hear it and in how mundane the answer is, like some beauty pageant contestant claiming holding hands will bring universal utopia. We know behind her…
Ask most people what they want out of life and what do they answer? Happiness!
It’s common both in the amount of times you hear it and in how mundane the answer is, like some beauty pageant contestant claiming holding hands will bring universal utopia. We know behind her…
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 12:41PM
The Tragedy and Triumph of Polish Poetry
Hereis a riddle.
Askmost
people what they want out of life and they answer?
Happy!
Commonboth
in the amount of times you hear it and in how mundane the answer
is, likesome beauty pageant contestant claiming holding hands will
bring universalutopia. We know behind her fake smile hides a person
who… Read full post »
DECEMBER 8, 2011 12:42PM
Christian Materialism : One Christian's response
DECEMBER 1, 2011 8:08AM
Commercial White Water Rafting
Commercial White Water Rafting
Rather than pouting, the pair pointed
upward
in a gaze, daring the gathered around
them
to see the bearings of the universe in the
fight
on one lone eagle gliding in the blue of
dispersed
light. On their feet, the gesture of the
two, leads
the others to the untouchable show… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 22, 2011 10:28AM
In the Valley of Life: Stories and Remembering Ann
I have started reading John
Goldingay's reflection and remembrance of his wife,
Remember Ann. I have had the book awhile and have been fearing
reading it. I knew John and Ann during my days at Fuller Seminary.
Ann was diagnosed with MS early in their relationship and John
took/… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 21, 2011 2:44PM
The Pain in my Thoughts and Thighs
The Pain in my Thoughts and
Thighs
I start my morning with a
cliché,
a lukewarm one at that. Walking
on ice, my reality.Trending on ice
that was once was snow, but tires
and time turned into a sheet of a
mixture
white and black ice, another overused
metaphor of good and bad. So, here
NOVEMBER 20, 2011 7:22PM
Going to the Well in the Middle of One Hot Day
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Going to the Well in the Middle of One
Hot Day
a mediation on a question about the
purpose of a SundayNight Bible Study
You ask how, on our emerald
and blue ball, I would direct
the coming of God, fearing
if we are doing right. I know
the temptation. Just gather under
a
… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 18, 2011 12:39PM
Not Another Telemarketer
Dime Day Doubts
When the history of world is written in
blank verse,
as all true history is inscribed in iambic
pentameter,
the main roll will go the ghosts of
telemarketers,
telling your to buy the telegraphed past
you’ve strive
to forgot, and who show up when you make
love
to your wife or when you… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 17, 2011 8:30AM
I Read Mine On My Ipad
I Read Mine On My Ipad
Codices, then a technological advance
of the young, were leather, vellum
and papyrus butterflies fluttering
in the wind throughout the Roman
world. Compact and carried by Jews,
missionaries and faithful slaves,
these first bound books became
the pollination for the destruction… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 16, 2011 12:30PM
Compassion, Penn State and Moral Bearings
David Brooks is morally outraged over the Penn State affair. He is not morally up in arms over the conduct of the school officials, coaches or ever the perpetrator (let us refuse to use his name as all his victims currently lack the dignity of names). No he is morally outraged… Read full post »
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