i am not a big fan of tradition when it is solely taking place for tradition's sake [even if the original meaning and intention might have been good but has been lost or watered down along the way] but there are some traditions which are rich and full of life [baptism, communion, a family that eats together etc] that are incredible. Join me as I look at Mark 7.1-13: [to continue to the [...]
so i started a hashtag today which i think could go viral if you all played along... the hashtag is #waystomakeatrexsad which if you can't read it says, 'Ways to Make a T-Rex sad' and plays off the idea that a T-Rex has short arms and so might struggle with certain activities. tell your friends. add me as @brettfisha if you haven't yet and lets get depressing that beast. some examples so far would be: [...]
another week and another great photo challenge, this one offering a range of interpretation, although i decided to keep it simple... here is a picture of me and the world's most famous stuffed dolphin, No_bob [because he doesn't!] taking in the sights of the Petronas towers in Malaysia... a strong sense of Up happening there... and then these three from my website photo shoot many years ago... which i call 'preparing for take-off' [...]
many of you may know that the beautiful Val [tbV] and i flew over to Americaland just over a month ago to start working in Oakland, California with a non-profit called Common Change [formerly known in parts as Relational Tithe] and i wanted to just share a little about that because we are hoping that the grand launch is going to be in a few weeks time, so it is a good space for you [...]
for years i have sent out a weekly challenging Christ-following email message called 'Thort for the Week' which you can sign up for by emailing me at brettfish@hotmail.com and asking to be added to TFTW... but this week's one i really felt i should share here as well... In Isaiah 52 the prophet says, 'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, [...]
So subscribers of Irresistibly Fish [this blog] may or may not know that i started another blog three weeks ago called 'The Weekly Mash [and peace!]' which has a regular focus - so each day each week will have the same focus with Monday being something fun, Tuesday being a news-related post, Wednesday having something to do with relationships, Thursday having a God-focused, Jesus-following aspect and then Friday being 'My Day' where i can blog [...]
if you haven't heard the news by now, Ellen DeGeneres has finally got her wish [after hints of a varying degree of subtlety and not-so-much for years on her show] and Pixar will be making a sequel to the 2003 animated hit 'Finding Nemo' in which of course Ellen voiced the character of Dory, this quirky and likeable but amnesiac blue regal tang fish called Dory. the sequel is going to be called 'Finding Dory' [...]
last nite i was invited by some new friends we've made here to join the Oakland City Watch team in a walk they do around the neighborhood [we live on 61st Ave and we walked around the streets closer to 90th so not crazy far away] that has three messages for the people of the community: # We care! # We want to see an end to violence, especially gun violence! # How can we [...]
i feel like the previous few Easters have kind of passed me by with not too much impact - being the easily recognised dreadlock wearing Easter Bunny at the Simple Way is all i can remember and i'm not sure where i was the year before but in the middle of preparation to leave for the Simple Way and so life was a fair bit chaotic... the last Easter that comes to mind was when [...]
then, in case that was not enough, i got involved in my first 'fight' on the Twitter... [i know, too many people surprised it took me this long, it is possible i just forgot any others that occurred] it revolved around the hash tag #SafetyTipsForLadies which someone that i followed tweeted and so i went to the link and read a bunch of them and was horrified by the way they seemed to be dealing [...]