Brett Anderson, Author at Brett Fish

How to Craft a South African Kaleidoscope

i just read a really helpful piece by Brene Brown titled, 'Own our History. Change the story' which is focused on Americaland which has what feels like a completely different story, when it comes to present race issues, in many ways, but also some remarkably similar overlaps. Owning our stories is standing in our truth. It’s transformative in our personal and professional lives AND it’s also critical in our community lives. But we don’t think about history [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-20T17:37:39+02:00June 20th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

i CEO what you did there.

So last night a group of CEO's got together in Johannesburg for the 702 Sun International CEO Sleepout which took place in Sandton [absolutely no irony there]. As i am in Americaland at the moment i only knew about it from the Twitterer and then was only able to get glimpses of what was happening from the same medium. In some ways it seemed like a good idea - i heard about R24 million being [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-19T22:37:24+02:00June 19th, 2015|challenging thorts, local news, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

In the wake of Charleston

We are angry. We grieve, mourn, weep. But we also choose to remember these dear sisters and brothers. Rest in peace. Cynthia Hurd [54] Tywanza Sanders [26] Sharonda Singleton [45] Myra Thompson [59] Ethel Lance [70] Susie Jackson [87] DePayne Doctor [49] Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr [74] Rev. Clementa Pinckney [41] [From Eugene Cho, who is a man i greatly respect and admire: @EugeneCho] i think it is strongly significant to start a conversation about the [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-19T20:08:06+02:00June 19th, 2015|pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, world news|0 Comments

a time to laugh and a time to speak

Last night a small group of us gathered at a friend's house for a bit of a farewell celebration. Our buddy JT Burns was leaving the state of California and heading home for new adventures and possibilities. So there we were, a small group of us huddled around an outside fire pit, drinking beer and eating chips and marshmallows and just enjoying our friend Jon. Then at one point, Nate suggested we share some fun [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-18T18:29:21+02:00June 18th, 2015|activities, change the world, inspire-ations|0 Comments

Chris Pratt’s character is NOT the young boy from Jurassic Park. Or is he?

A bunch of us went to watch Jurassic World last night and it was a lot of fun. i am a HUGE Chris Pratt fan [before it was cool to be] and he totally brought it. Indiana Pratt Jones? Bring it on! But on the way home it was brought to my attention that there have been rumours on the internet that his character Owen is a grown-up version of the young boy from the original [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-17T16:27:42+02:00June 17th, 2015|and other animals., fun, silly things, what i am watching|0 Comments

And the drum beats on…

I was thirty-five when I tied the proverbial knot and so had attended many marriages and yet this one continues to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Not simply because it was my marriage, which no doubt adds its own weight of bias, but I imagine regardless of whose ceremony I was attending that day, I would have still been blown away. Purple-haired, black suited, I waited nervously for my bride to arrive. Upon [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-16T19:56:18+02:00June 16th, 2015|activities, friends and enemas, fun, love and chocolate|0 Comments

Highlight Moment from my life #54: Becoming Free

When tbV [the beautiful Val] and i were living in Oakland about a year ago, we came across a book titled ‘Free’ by a friend of ours we had met over here, Mark Scandrette. The tagline of the book is ‘Spending your Time and Money on What Matters Most’ and that really does sum up the book. We decided to gather some people together and work through the book over an eight week period. [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-15T15:59:54+02:00June 15th, 2015|activities, life, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

The New Jim Crow – part Statistics

Just before tbV and i left Americaland last year August, i started reading 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander, a tough but brilliant read focusing on the system of mass incarceration of black people in Americaland. Then we had to leave and i had to give the book back having only read two or three chapters. But now we're back in Americaland and i saw it lying [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-15T02:30:02+02:00June 15th, 2015|challenging thorts, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Poem: Sitting on the edge of the tub

SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE TUB - by brett "Fish" anderson sitting here perched on the edge of this hot tub half in, half out struggling to rationalise my body's capability with the extreme temperature that is bubbling back at me but i've been here for a while and this water sure ain't getting any cooler am i getting any braver? and will i finally slide all the way in? hold that [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-13T20:55:29+02:00June 13th, 2015|God stuff, pain and Hope, poems and other creativity, things to wrestle with|1 Comment

Make the Most of it Count

i wrote a post a couple of years ago titled, 'Your Obituary Starts Here' which i need to flesh out a little i think, because we don't say or think enough about that. When i turned 40 last year, among other things my wife got my best friend from college to bake a Boob Cake [yup, exactly what you thought when you read that] and put together a bunch of the things i had wanted [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-11T19:13:56+02:00June 11th, 2015|activities, inspire-ations, life|0 Comments