choice : Brett Fish

Philandro Castile, Imizamo Yethu and the uneven choice

shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people

Philandro Castile, Imizamo Yethu and the uneven choice

'Once again, police get away with murder.' Those are the words Julia Wallace used to begin this article she wrote about the murder of Philandro Castile and the subsequent "Not Guilty" acquittal of Jeromino Yanez, the police offer who clearly panicked [if you have watched the horrific video of the shooting], killing him in front of his girlfriend and four year old daughter in a car. Everything in the incident seems to give unequivocal evidence as [...]

By brettfish|2017-07-04T11:02:29+02:00July 4th, 2017|shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Extending the choice

South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people

Extending the choice

Who has the ability to choose? i was involved in a Whatsapp conversation with a really amazing group of people who have the most hecticest [it's a word] race conversations. Usually i can't keep up with them [diverse group of leaders mostly from Joburg side that i connected with at the beginning of last year at a live Race conversation] and so i jump in every now and then to glean some gems, of which [...]

By brettfish|2017-02-01T10:53:16+02:00February 1st, 2017|South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

We who have choice.

pain and Hope, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with

We who have choice.

Most days i wake up and am excited to try and do my little bit to hopefully help make things better in South Africa. i write blogs, i engage with people in conversation online and offline, i use the platforms i have to create spaces for other voices to speak boldly about important and significant things. tbV and i try to use our time and money and energy and work to help make things better [...]

By brettfish|2016-02-05T07:48:41+02:00February 5th, 2016|pain and Hope, shtupidt people, South Africa, things to wrestle with|6 Comments

Choose this day.

Every day we wake up we have a world of opportunity ahead of us [within our particular context, although if you are reading this on a computer, tablet or phone then your choice options are pretty huge compared to most] - there are a whole bunch of things that are set that we cannot affect, but there are also a whole bunch of choices and changes that we can definitely make. Each morning when I [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-26T05:49:35+02:00April 26th, 2014|activities, change the world, inspire-ations, thorts of other people|0 Comments

the obstacle or the opportunity? a question of perspective

i'd love to make this sound like the cool kind of parable Jesus would have used, but i don't think i can. but if it was a fairy-tale type story it would begin with something sounding like 'Once upon a time...' and very quickly end up at the place of 'Brett looked at the path and it was blocked by the giant obstacle. He didn't know what to do next.' and depending on your perspective [...]

By brettfish|2013-02-11T08:48:24+02:00February 11th, 2013|activities, and other animals., challenging thorts, God stuff|6 Comments

How to Save a Marriage… before you need to. [part ix]

my friend Rob takes the advice on how to create a strong marriage thing in a bit of a different direction with this solid advice: Lock the escape hatch and throw away the key. With no way out we are left to work through our challenges together and become the purposed display or shadow of Christ and his bride to the world. On a practical level: - Give yourselves to the process of holiness more [...]

By brettfish|2018-12-14T11:21:35+02:00November 13th, 2011|love and chocolate, marriage, relationships|4 Comments

the andersons Live Below The Line day 5

and coffee... met some friends for coffee at the BP to celebrate the end of the week which has been interesting - quite a stressful time in terms of packing up the house and finishing off transcription work and trying to organise visas and a bunch of other stuff but i think that's cool in a way - we don't get to always choose when life happens to us - and while this live below [...]

By brettfish|2011-05-07T02:18:08+02:00May 7th, 2011|activities|4 Comments

the andersons Live Below The Line day 3

and we're still alive, and muchly so... i was in charge of supper duty and overestimated the amount of noodles we needed so we have a bunch of it left for tomorrow - green beans and a couple of carrots and two chopped up prok sausages [have 8 of those for the week visiting 4 different meals as our week's meat, flip] and half an onion and half a packet of macaroni - and with [...]

By brettfish|2011-05-04T19:09:31+02:00May 4th, 2011|activities|2 Comments

the andersons Live Below The Line Day 1

so this morning we had a third of a 500g portion of Jungle Oats between us with butter, no sugar [i whined!] and then for lunch we had two pieces of toast and a quarter of an avo each and then for supper we had two pieces of toast and an avo each [menu changed a little bit in terms of what's on what day cos we came thru to cape town so had to [...]

By brettfish|2011-05-02T22:52:43+02:00May 2nd, 2011|activities|3 Comments