Blog : Brett Fish

i will blame it on the huehuetenango [just as soon as i figure out what a huehuetenango is!]

Michael Toy is one of my imaginary friends, you know like the one you had as a kid, that you were convinced was real. Except that this one really is. No seriously, you gotta believe me! Although his last name even suggests that i might have trouble convincing anyone of that. 'Imaginary' in that, though we have been 'friends on Facebook' and have at least 30 mutual friends [most of whom i actually real-life know] [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-20T09:33:07+02:00June 20th, 2014|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, poems and other creativity, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The Power of Water

One of the most powerful passages from the book i am busy finishing at the moment, because it will start with laughter and end in tears. Such a powerful read: I suppose that the number of homies I've baptised over the decades is in the thousands. Gang members find themselves locked up and get around to doing things their parents didn't arrange for them. Homies are always walking up to me at Homeboy Industries or [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-18T08:56:36+02:00June 18th, 2014|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The will of God [aka When God dies, who gets His stuff]

"I'm not sure what God's will is for my life!" i hear this a lot, or some other version of it. And i have spoken about/written on this before, but feels like a good time to bring it up. YES, YOU NAILED IT, GOD WANTED THAT BABY TO GET SICK AND DIE possibly the worst scenario this plays out in is when someone gets an incurably disease or a person dies and somebody who is chatting [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-17T09:30:26+02:00June 17th, 2014|bible things, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations|0 Comments

You can be anything you want to be

i posted this a few years ago when i had a Weekly Mash blog going on, but thought it was worthy of a place on Irresistibly Fish as it is one picture that never fails to make me smile a lot and usually laugh out loud [which is unusual for me - normally an inside laugher] i hope it might have that effect on some of you. you know as a child, many well-meaning adults [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-16T13:49:28+02:00June 16th, 2014|humour'ish, silly things|0 Comments

Standing with the least likely to succeed

If i was sharing every chapter and excerpt i enjoyed from ‘Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion’ by Father Gregory Boyle, which i have been reading and really being deeply moved by, then the whole book would pretty much be in here. But i am wanting you to get hold of the book and so am only sharing a story or a passage from every couple of chapters in the book. There is some [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-15T08:01:29+02:00June 15th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am watching|0 Comments

Pearls before sacks.

Once again, the punmeister Stephan Pastis of Pearls before Swine fame is giving it his best and poor innocent Pig is taking one in the head: [For another Pearls before Swine Pig + pun combo, click here] [For a whole list of some of my favourites, click here]

By brettfish|2014-06-14T09:36:04+02:00June 14th, 2014|and other animals., humour'ish, what i am reading|0 Comments

When enemies work together

A third extract from ‘Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion’ by Father Gregory Boyle, which you should clearly be able to gather by now i am adding to my 'Books i would love for all my friends to read' list so just do it already. So brief background to this short piece is that Father Boyle works predominantly with gangsters and ex-gangsters through a number of different businesses that fall under the banner of Homeboy [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-13T09:12:04+02:00June 13th, 2014|activities, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, people, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Marriage Year 5: Meet Jackie and Tim Barker

We got married on the 28th of November 2009. Best decision ever. Seriously. We have both loved being married and will often wonder how we got to be so blessed. There were a few things we decided on early in our marriage that has made a world of difference, and we have practiced them ever since. Firstly... We decided to never leave the 'honeymoon stage'. Everyone around us who heard how happy we were kept [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-12T22:01:50+02:00June 12th, 2014|love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|5 Comments

i’m not sure you’re against that thing you think you’re against: part rape culture

What does the term 'Rape Culture' mean? The phrase is off-putting and in some ways misleading [to someone who doesn't understand what it means at any rate]. Tell a guy he is a part of the existing rape culture and he is most likely to react strongly against that: "How dare you suggest I'm a rapist? Or put me in the same grouping as rapists as if I could be one of them." Well, sometimes [...]

By brettfish|2019-10-18T09:31:06+02:00June 12th, 2014|change the world, pain and Hope|9 Comments

i'm not sure you're against that thing you think you're against [Intro]

Sometimes two sides of a vociferous argument can both be right. A silly [but true] example could be someone from Americaland arguing that mayonnaise is horrible [i have lived here for three years and am still to find one i find overly edible] Whereas, having tasted South African mayo, and especially the no name brand big jar version, i might argue that mayonnaise is incredible. We would both be telling the truth in terms of [...]