challenging thorts : Brett Fish

10 More Things i Don’t Understand

Not too long ago i shared a list of 10 Things i struggle to get my mind around... This was quite a varied lists of topics and included such items as pineapple on pizza, litter [special mention to cigarette butts out car windows], people's confusion with regards to four way stops, recent Adam Sandler movies [bonus cameo by Will Ferrell], the 'joke' insult, make-your-best-friend-look-and-act-like-a-tit bachelor party vibes, the difference between adopted children and real children, [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-27T10:39:10+02:00August 27th, 2015|challenging thorts, fun, things to wrestle with, top 10 List|5 Comments

10 Practical Ways to Change your Country for the better [part II]

A lot of people complain about South Africa or just feel completely overwhelmed by stories [and experiences] of crime or corruption and more. There is good reason for a lot of that, but if you aren’t planning on leaving the country, then it makes a lot more sense to be a part of the change. In Part I, we looked at five practical ways at which we can genuinely get involved in seeing change in [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-18T13:21:58+02:00August 18th, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with|5 Comments

A Zealot, an Essene, a Herodian and a Pharisee walked into a bar…

i am busy reading this book, that my friend Steve Graybill sent to me while we were in Americaland [after i asked for one of the books he had recently read that was worth reading] and it has been such an interesting read. Steve was the one who recommended 'The Lemon Tree' and 'Blood Brothers' which i gave a glimpse of over here, as i was trying to understand the Palestinian/Israeli crisis a little bit [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-06T09:39:23+02:00August 6th, 2015|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, what i am reading|1 Comment

Deep Dive Conversation Dinner Challenge

i love movies. But the other day i was sitting at the table with a group of guys and we spoke about movies for an hour and a half. It was an event so i felt kinda trapped in the seat i was in at the restaurant. And my head wanted to explode, because as much as i love movies, speaking about them for an hour and a half [in which everyone was pretty much [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-04T09:31:39+02:00August 4th, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|6 Comments

Whose bread is it anyway?

It was just another praying through of the Lord's prayer... You know the deal, 'Our Father, who are in heaven, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know, find the rhythm blah blah blah lips moving to recreate words long worn into you in some ancient school assembly probably blah blah blah' WAIT, WHAT? There is was, middle of the prayer, Matthew 6, verse 11: 11 Give us today our daily bread. That's surely [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-03T07:09:58+02:00August 3rd, 2015|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|7 Comments

10 Things i Don’t Understand

If ever a post was going to get me into trouble, this is probably it. i'm not talking directly about things that i hate or completely judge [although, perhaps some of them] but by and large and firstly things i simply do not understand. Things my brain can't get around. Things that don't make sense to me. And maybe they make sense to you and that's okay - maybe some of them shouldn't and possibly [...]

By brettfish|2015-07-31T09:25:38+02:00July 31st, 2015|challenging thorts|19 Comments

Deep Dive Conversation Dinner: Money and economic type things

I know that I am cared for by an abundant Provider I choose to be grateful and trusting, I believe I have enough and that what I need will always be provided. I choose to be content and generous. I know that my choices matter for myself, for others and for future generations. Help me to live consciously and creatively, celebrating signs of your new creation that is present and coming. Creator, who made me [...]

By brettfish|2015-07-26T09:18:34+02:00July 26th, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|5 Comments

The drum beats on…

i have read some REALLY helpful articles about privilege this week. My fear is that the appearance of the word 'privilege' with the assumption of it being specifically 'white privilege' on my blog immediately drives the very people i am wanting to hear and engage with this stuff away. But my hope, which is so much stronger than my fear, is that there are people like Bob [who a bunch of us had this long [...]

By brettfish|2015-07-24T13:34:38+02:00July 24th, 2015|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

I Write What I Like – Steve Biko: the perceived inferiority of the black man

This is a hard but necessary passage to share from Steve Biko's 'I Write What I Like' which you should totally get hold of and read in its entirety. Hard, because it is true. Not true that the black man is inferior, but that the idea of the black man being inferior has been so deeply entrenched in so many of us, that it is an extremely hard and horrible thing to admit to when [...]

By brettfish|2019-01-28T12:25:31+02:00July 23rd, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, what i am reading|4 Comments

Getting Real with some White South Africans

This rollercoaster looks familiar. i had just posted a link to an article titled Get Real White South Africa, written by Milisuthando Bongela on the Times Lives site. It contained this challenging and eye-opening statement: Only white people can end white supremacy from within their communities - from their churches, schools, dinner tables, clamber clubs, sports clubs, boardrooms, banting restaurants, neighbourhood-watch WhatsApp groups, advertising agency brainstorms, rebranded Broederbond organisations, newsrooms, coffee roasteries, and homes. Which [...]