the simple way : Brett Fish

2013: there and back again!

so for friends back home there have been hints and allegations [a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby] and subtle innuendos as to what might be pertaining to the future for the andersons after this year... for those of you who have been following semi-closely, the beautiful Valerie [tbV] and i have been living, working and ministering with the Simple Way Christian non-profit organisation in Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Americaland since about June of [...]

By brettfish|2012-11-28T07:10:10+02:00November 28th, 2012|activities, and other animals., life, local news, the beautiful Val (tbV)|3 Comments

to vote or not to vote a definitive guide [ish]

at the simple way tonite we had Chris Haw come and share on the question of whether or not to vote... it was a really interesting discussion and sharing time and i imagine there was enough sensible reason given to vote [and this seriously piss off the 'thou shalt not vote' people] as well as enough sensible reason given not to vote [ditto with the 'tis within your moral obligation to the world to vote' [...]

By brettfish|2012-11-02T05:11:21+02:00November 2nd, 2012|activities, and other animals., change the world, church, God stuff, life, local news|1 Comment

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

the ability to stay aka stability

on the way to the CCDA conference in Minneapolis that a bunch of us from the Simple Way are currently attending, three of us stopped over at a Nurturing Communities event hosted by David Janzen who has just released a book on community and met up with a bunch of people from different intentional communities all over the country and spent a really great day connecting and dialoging and having an opportunity to connect with [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-28T07:45:52+02:00September 28th, 2012|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff, life, thorts of other people|3 Comments

Taboo Topics: Singleness – meet Sueihn Lee

[Sueihn was our housemate at the Simple Way - she has been an absolute pleasure to live with and it has been incredible to watch her connect with people and especially children on the block as well as with churches and organisations in the area - i tag teamed with her on Mondays to share lemonade with the people in the food lines as well as talk to and pray with them - i am [...]

By brettfish|2012-09-15T05:29:51+02:00September 15th, 2012|love and chocolate, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|8 Comments

Conversations 1: part poverty definition

my friend and bossman, Darin, shared some stuff on Saturday's Simple Way Conversations day on the theme of stewarding your treasures [your money and things] well in the world we live in... one really interesting thing he said which made me think was when he asked about the definition of poverty and said that often poverty has been defined as THE LACK OF STUFF? that's true, right? i'm sure most of us would agree... but [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-27T18:08:10+02:00August 27th, 2012|change the world, church, life, people, relationships, thorts of other people|7 Comments

Conversations 1: part outgiving God

yesterday at the Simple Way we had our very first session of Conversations at the Simple Way which three of us had largely been working on pulling together for a while - 15 people signed up to hang out with us as we did a couple of different sessions including one on intentional community, a practical serving the community aspect, a story over lunch from someone in the neighborhood who is involved in doing some [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-26T08:34:24+02:00August 26th, 2012|Uncategorized|2 Comments

Wild Goose Hunting – Day 1 [aka Of Tetris and Ice [ing]]

so the past 4 days the simple way crew headed off to the Wild Goose which is a festival of music and speaking and art and a lot more which happened last year for the very first time [and which was one of the first experiences the beautiful Val and myself had after joining the Simple Way] and so i thort i'd write some reflections on it day to day but nothing too intense because [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-25T08:33:02+02:00June 25th, 2012|activities, life, local news, love and chocolate|0 Comments

i kissed hating [the church] goodbye…

that is the title of my yet-to-be-published book. i have a title. and i have a book. and i think i am ready to start exploring ideas of how to go forward with getting it published. i have spent the last few days proof-reading someone else's book and it made me realise [along with a friend of mine who started reading my book and gave me some positive feedback, thankx Liam!] that i pushed through [...]

By brettfish|2012-05-12T11:00:55+02:00May 12th, 2012|activities, and other animals., church|2 Comments

the day i took on city hall…

and by 'took on' i mean 'visited and got to speak' - have written a two parter blog about today's public response to mayor nutter's ban on public feeding on my other blog and here are the links... http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/i-had-a-dream-part-i http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/i-had-a-dream-part-ii-blooper-reel and now 'got stalked by' http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/i-had-a-dream-part-iii-aka-stalker-in-the-gym/ and quoted... http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/i-had-a-dream-part-iv-aka-pressing-on/

By brettfish|2012-04-12T21:18:35+02:00April 12th, 2012|activities, and other animals., change the world, life, local news, people|0 Comments