Blog : Brett Fish

Inching closer towards Reconciliation, one blog post at a time – meet Michael Talbot

My name is Michael and I'm married to Deborah. We both grew up in the Cape Town southern suburbs where people are generally wealthy and generally white. We don't really remember anything before 1994 and so we've basically grown up in the "New South Africa". This year we've been living in rural Mpumalanga while Deborah does her community service as a dietitian. Although we've been involved in projects and work in Mfuleni, Heideveld, Nyanga, and [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-25T23:32:55+02:00November 25th, 2014|change the world, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|1 Comment

What my Single Friends would like their Married Friends to know: Meet Chris Jacobs

Where do you even begin to describe the real challenges associated with singleness vs. marriage? I run the risk of making myself incredibly vulnerable by the detail I share in this post, but to most of your readers I am a “relative stranger”, so whilst there may be some risk, I believe sharing may benefit some and in turn out-weight the associated risk. I’ve been reading through your, and everybody else’s posts and have found [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-25T05:08:33+02:00November 25th, 2014|friends and enemas, relationships, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|3 Comments

Locked in a Cave – part ii

Yesterday was just a half day in the cave. Today was meant to be a full day, but i am having an early morning breakfast with the staff of Westville Baptist who are pretty much all friends of mine so that feels like a pleasant interruption to the day. And then later i do have an airport trip to make which will end with me having access to the hired car which is great for tomorrow [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-24T22:41:30+02:00November 24th, 2014|activities, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Locked in a Cave – part i

i flew to durban with four main purposes in mind: The first was to visit and surprise my younger sister Dawn and spend some time with her Glen and my nephew Josh [i am Uncle Fish and i am cool] and some of my really great friends from years and years. The second was to do some networking for The Youth Hub which is my two-day-per-week job, writing 100 words or less youth resources and sending them [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-24T06:54:11+02:00November 24th, 2014|activities, adventures, God stuff, inspire-ations, Uncategorized, what i am reading|0 Comments

Two True Meanings of Christmas [some guested thoughts by Graham Heslop]

In response to a piece i shared on Christmas, which among other things, invited readers to share some of their creative/revolutionary/others-focused ideas they had for celebrating Christmas, i was tweeted by Graham Heslop links to two articles, asking me to check them out. i'm not going to lie, i wasn't super enthusiastic, mostly because the idea of reading more articles feels a little bit like work. But Graham is someone i follow on the Twitterer [@avosquirrel] [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-23T17:13:29+02:00November 23rd, 2014|activities, God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people, Uncategorized, what i am reading|0 Comments

the Friday FANatic 21/11/2014

Wow, we're running out of Friday already and this feels like a much slower week than last week which was filled with amazing posts, shares and humouric things... But there were still some things worth checking out on the internet if you happened to miss them: MOST INSPIRATIONAL: The Guy Who Delivers HIV Medicine on His Bicycle - Get to know Sizwe Nsima's name and read his simple and powerful story ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGING: I'm Not [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-21T14:16:26+02:00November 21st, 2014|things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, Uncategorized, what i am reading|0 Comments

There is no ‘U’ in Christmas

It's true, i am the Grinch of all things Christmas. Well, maybe not all things. But christmas carols in October? i literally count the success of my year [in one way] by how late in the year i manage to hear my first christmas carol [Disclaimer: This obviously excludes the Boney M version of 'Drummer Boy' and anyone who says otherwise is clearly lying through their teeth, or maybe their barumpumpum-bum] But between all the [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-19T22:28:15+02:00November 19th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, Uncategorized|3 Comments

The Importance Of Being Earnest (Sex, Religion and the New South Africa)

[a guest post by Sindile Mlingo Vabaza] I will not pretend to have grasped the inherent difficulties in running a country but I think I can confidently assert that if we want not only a free and fair and just South Africa, but one that has clearly engaged it's past and moved into a post-colonial and post apartheid state, we are going to have to be both honest and have intellectual integrity no matter what [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-19T01:07:16+02:00November 19th, 2014|challenging thorts, God stuff, love and chocolate, relationships, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|1 Comment

What Mark Driscoll is up to these days…

So it's been a little while since the Mark Driscoll thing happened... you know the one i mean, or you probably wouldn't be in here reading this... But what has been up to? i have not really been thinking too much about him. I mean i hope him and his family are well and that he is getting the help he needs and all of that. So not on my radar at all. That is, [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-18T13:59:24+02:00November 18th, 2014|humour'ish, shtupidt people, silly things, Uncategorized, what i am reading|4 Comments

Friendship – Thoughts and Stories and Words and Things

One of the most important relationships one can have is friendship. Family is family but you get to choose your friends, and all that. i have a crazy amount of good friends who i thoroughly appreciate and thought it necessary to have some posts looking at how we can make good friends as well as be good friends to those around us - i hope you enjoy: Cheering Section: The Art of Mentoring - I [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-17T01:14:56+02:00November 17th, 2014|friends and enemas, relationships, Uncategorized|2 Comments