time for a new local muso to interview and for those of you who have never crossed his path you are missing it - let's get to know Ashton Gardner: so Ashton, i don't even know where i know you from - possibly meadowridge links? - but you are one of those guys it feels like i've always kinda known but not really - tell us, where are you these days and what are you [...]
so in between hiding out in a cave and writing my book i managed to record a third audio thort which you can hear here http://brettfish.tumblr.com
so the writing is going pretty well - not sure i'll be finishing this week but have definitely taken some huge strides forward [thankx big time to Garth Croftbro who reviewed the first part of it really hectically and gave me a lot of great stuff to work with] so thankx to everyone praying towards that... i did make time to record my second audio thort and you can find it here - http://brettfish.tumblr.com/ - [...]
so yes, this week has finally arrived [in the haze of the bigger picture of "what are you doing this year brett?" having resigned from my job at vineyard church end of last year after 6 years of student/youth ministry due to it being the end of a good season and being in a place of waiting on God for the next plan of action...] and the plan for this week is to try and [...]
not to be confused with 'can't i just enjoy this big thing first?' some people refuse to let go of stuff. and it kills them. some people it actually genuinely physically kills them, cos you can trace ulcers and other stress-related diseases and conditions to the unforgiveness and disappointments that they held onto for a considerable amount of their lives someone once said "holding onto unforgiveness is like drinking a cup of poison and hoping [...]
i'm not going to lie, i think Pearls Before Swine (ah, you got it, did you?) is one of the greatest cartoons ever - you can now see animated versions of some of them via You Tube podcast - i love it - today's one is brilliant and typical - keep on stephan pastis, keep on... for more of these or to find his collections or receive the daily comic, head here...
what is with people and 'the next big thing?' - you've been single forever and you finally get yourself a girlfriend and within a month or two (especially if you're older) people are like, "so, when's the big day?" you get married and within a month or two (way before the plans settle on any kind of one year wedding anniversary preparation) it's the knowing smirks and, "so, kids hey?" and so on, and those [...]
this morning i gave a brief talk at somerset college on the difference between God's love and our (worldly) love and it went really well - but then the beautiful val sent me this link to this article on the relevant magazine site which i really think is so toyoda'ly written in terms of really capturing a lot of what it is about... check it out here... and please pass it on - so, so, [...]
i assume that this post will lose me a lot of respect and so it's quite fortunate i don't feed off that stuff - but there are a couple of songs that i have bought from ovi music store in the last couple of months that i keep sticking on repeat cos they make me happy... they are the following in no particular order: [1] bought this morning: 'Techno Band' by Lonehill Estate - what [...]
there are lots and lots of reasons but i've decided every now and then to celebrate by highlighting one of them... so today my beautiful wife [aka valerie slash tbV] decided she needed to go thru cupboards and stuff and get rid of crap. my response, "yes, let's get rid of crap, yay." her response was "hey, can we offer this stuff to Churien, the lady who comes and helps us clean our house once [...]