friends and enemas : Brett Fish

hey, i just met you, and this is crazy, but could you please-look, after your baby…

my wife and i love children! other peoples! we love the bit where we get to give them back afterwards. and then return to our childrenless lair. [okay, it's not quite a lair, more an intentional community house in the inner city area of kensington, philadelphia... but still, no children living with us in the house at this particular point in time] so kind of like a choose-your-own-[children]-adventure of sorts - we get to decide [...]

By brettfish|2012-10-24T00:10:20+02:00October 24th, 2012|challenges, friends and enemas, humour'ish, life, people, relationships, shtupidt people, silly things|37 Comments

Ten Ways to Love part III: Give without sparing

Proverbs 21 verse 25 and 26 read, 'The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work. All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.' Okay, so my hand is up again, but this time i think it's a good thing. Giving generously is a way in which we can show Love well. In fact when I read the words "without sparing" the [...]

By brettfish|2019-08-09T23:04:45+02:00October 22nd, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, the beautiful Val (tbV)|2 Comments

Ten Ways to Love part II: Speak without accusing.

James 1 verse 19-20 says, 'My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.' Oh no, why is my hand up again? Anyone else got their hand up in the air for this one? Really not starting so strong there, mister Fish. Another way to definitively show love to someone [...]

By brettfish|2019-08-09T23:03:56+02:00October 21st, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, the beautiful Val (tbV)|3 Comments

questions

so yesterday afternoon, after a week of staff strategic planning as the Simple Way, everyone left except for the four of us from the Village House [yes, the Village People!] which is myself, the beautiful Val [tbV], Sueihn and our newest band member, Dan from the UK [formerly dread-wearing Dan] so that we could have an extra day at the venue to bond and get to know each other a little better... as we finished [...]

By brettfish|2012-10-12T08:06:57+02:00October 12th, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, life|1 Comment

of dinosaurs, finger insects and state line jumps…

we [myself, my beautiful wife Val, our housemate Sueihn and my gym and office buddy Coe aka 'Bubbly'] just got back from a very long trip which involved two twenty-five-plus hour two day road trips on either side of a one day Nurturing Communities conference which lead directly into the Christian Community Development Association [CCDA] annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota... what a complete blast. we had a great time road-tripping up, but it was our [...]

By brettfish|2012-10-01T21:57:38+02:00October 1st, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, humour'ish, life, local news, silly things, the beautiful Val (tbV)|0 Comments

being aware of the deluge in your unique…

i said to my beautiful wife Valerie the other day something along the lines of 'what do people write statuses [stati?] about on Facebook if they are not entering into a relationship or having a baby? [or these days in americaland making some kind of staunchly pro this party or anti that one political statement] as it just seemed like the majority of statuses [stati?] i was reading were about one of those... two things [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-01T14:20:49+02:00September 1st, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, local news, marriage, relationships|4 Comments

remembering the unique within the deluge…

i said to my beautiful wife Valerie the other day something along the lines of 'what do people write statuses [stati?] about on Facebook if they are not entering into a relationship or having a baby? [or these days in americaland making some kind of staunchly pro this party or anti that one political statement] as it just seemed like the majority of statuses [stati?] i was reading were about one of those... and two [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-01T14:19:06+02:00September 1st, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, local news, people, relationships, thorts of other people|3 Comments

the games we play: The Settlers of Catan

there is a difference between people who play games and game players - the people who commented on the intro to this blog series post that they love 'Balderdash' and '30 Seconds' are people who play games... for game players [and it's not a judgemental difference, just a difference] are the kinds of people who can invest some serious time in a game for both the vibe of the game [people who play games] and [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-18T09:16:03+02:00July 18th, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, games & Stuff, sport and games|4 Comments

the games we play: part intro

my family and friends have always played a lot of games [except for my dad, he hates games with a passion, his favourite is sitting in the lounge reading his newspaper while the rest of the family plays trivial pursuit and shouting out all the answers, but that's about the closest he gets] but my mom and my sisters love games, and the large majority of friends in my and now our friend ship circles [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-17T00:26:48+02:00July 17th, 2012|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, games & Stuff, sport and games|5 Comments

Squishy Fruit Conspiracy [and other anti-raisin songs i have recorded]

So back in the day i recorded a song with my friend Simon van Wyk [now a world famous Brother Streep] titled 'Squishy Fruit Conspiracy' which was about my personal hatred towards raisins and other related squishy fruits... You can listen to that song here as well as the follow-up i did called 'Sultanas' which was a parody of Snow's 'Informer' from a whole bunch of other years ago... And the even famouser No_bob [the [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-27T12:07:18+02:00June 27th, 2012|and other animals., friends and enemas, humour'ish, silly things|1 Comment