hi there
my name is brett “Fish” anderson and this is my blog…
the FISH stands for Faithful In Serving Him and it is all about the purpose of my life being about trying to love Jesus and love people more and well and better. and to hopefully help them do likewise.
this is apparently my 1095th blog post so i’ve been doing this for a while. i don’t tend to use a lot of CAPS which infuriates some people but i generally like to keep them for highlighting important things like God and people. the beginnings of sentences don’t often feel worthy enough for me to employ CAPS. apparently the word CAPS does, at least in this post.
i also apparently have 279 subscribers to my blog. but to be honest i don’t really know a whole lot of you. and that bothers me a little bit. i don’t follow a lot of other blogs usually because of time but three that i find myself at quite often and which i generally like are those belonging to Don Miller, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary [and bronze olympic hugger if she is to be believed] and Rachel Held Evans… i don’t always agree with everything all of them say [which is good, and hopefully you won’t either, when it comes to me too] but more often than not i find them encouraging or challenging me to be a better me and to love Jesus and people and embrace life more and those are all good things.
but they all have interactions in their comments section. and that’s one thing this blog lacks and i’m not quite sure how to get that right [maybe you need 10000 followers to get 10 comments so i may have a fair bit to go] except by having it implied that i am anti-animal [which i’m not particularly] cos back in the day that used to get people going off.
[1] the one thing i was thinking was that a lot of my posts tend to be sermons or lessons, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but i don’t know if that would make me inclined to comment and get involved…
[2] the second thing is that i was doing NABLOPOMO which is the challenge WordPress has to post a blog a day for a month, which i normally do anyways [or close to] but find that when i’m trying to do one for the sake of doing one then i tend to end up writing blog posts that feel like they’ve been written for the sake of it and that just absolutely SUCKS. so i’m going to stop that.
here is what i am going to try to do going forwards [and you can hold me to it, or maybe remind me from time to time]:
[A] i am going to try and only post what i want to post… and that will probably still be a whole bunch of different stuff, but i am going to try and be more intentional on this front
[A + 1] i am going to try and post some more life blogs, so not messages, just life as i experience it or things i am thinking or experiences i am experiencing
[A + 2] i am going to try and come up with a less ridiculous numbering system for bullet points than this one which felt clever in my head, but really isn’t.
all to say that i don’t know if you will notice a whole lot, but i am wanting in my brain at least to be intentional about changing lanes and maybe there will be more cause for interaction in the months and years to come.
in the meantime if you are a subscriber who actually reads my blog from time to time [and not one who has set their settings to automatic ‘like’ which does tend to make me feel good until i realise you’re liking every single post which no sane person possibly could and so go back to being sad or really really nervous about the kind of person that might be] then i would love it if you would jump in to the comments section below and at least say hi and if you’re up for it introduce yourself and say a few words and if there was any particular post you liked or any specific type of post that you enjoy more please let me know… and every now and then when you read a post and you have an extra minute, add a thought or a comment or start some controversy about me hating animals…
and then if all 279 of you went from there directly to this link and voted on my most incredible Coke Zero sweater which i created, then there is little doubt in my mind i would make it into the top 100 and it would actually get made and that would be fun. at least for me. so please do that.
but anyways, thankx to all of you who do come in and read from time to time and i hope that some of the things i write or post or video make at least some small difference to your life… here’s to the next 1095 posts…
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Irresistibly Fish 
here in south africa my 3G signal is quite pathetic…and for some or other reason my phone’s comment section is not working…but reading your posts and often use it in discussion group or just chatting about the general ideas with my husband. will try to comment a bit more though!
hi. my name is kevin. i also don’t tend to use CAPS, although that’s not a rule for me. some days i do, some days i don’t.
anyways, i think i’ve read all (or at least the majority) of your posts since i subscribed to your channel. i don’t have an automatic like system employed. didn’t even know such a thing existed! i tend to share your blog posts on my facebook page if they really challenge or entertain me 🙂
i like that you have a variety of posts. my favourite posts in the more serious/challenging category of your blog are your “mark, my words” series, and the “taboo topics”. and then in terms of the humorous stuff, i enjoy DTYCLE and your brett andy surveys. if i’m honest, in both cases, some make me laugh more than others. some don’t even get a chuckle [sorry]. but i always watch, in the hopes of finding a gem. and i often do 😀
so i think that’s about it from me. apologies that i don’t comment more often. i think i tend to be more “vocal” on other platforms like facebook. i’ll read something here, and share it and potentially comment on it there. that’s just how i do things. but it doesn’t mean i’m not reading. i’m sure that could be the case for a few of your blog followers.
hopefully we can encourage you to keep posting the awesome material you do. and i know you don’t like to use the word “awesome” for fear of it losing it’s “awe” and reserve it only for God (see…i used CAPS 😛 ) but since the majority of your posts are about God and people, i think “awesome” is an apt description. so yeah…keep it up mr FISH 🙂
ah thankx Kev. because it’s you i’ll forgive all the smiley faces [have i never blogged about those?] but you have been such a chief in terms of encouragement and sharing that if you never wrote another single comment on a blog i’d know and appreciate your love and appreciation… love you buddy, brett.
i guess some people are lazy and just press like as their interaction… haha
I voted for your sweater! And I agree your numbering system is a bit ridiculous. I know what you mean about writing posts that get hits but no comments and wondering what that means 😛 Mostly I think the internet just makes us used to anonymity and consuming information without having to give feedback. And facebook has made us lazy to type words instead of just click a like button if we think something’s okay.
I will affirm your decision to only write what you want to write! A post for its own sake is yeah… not usually that fruitful to read or to write (I’ve noticed this on a ton of blogs, that I’ll follow it because I love it, then it will kind of degenerate over time, and then the author will have a tell-all post in which they share that they have lost their passion/been having personal crises/ended up writing for its own sake. Then they take a break or jump back in with a clean conscience – hope it’s the second for you!
Excited about your new posts! Will be checking them out 🙂
Awe bra Brett!!! Been loving your stuff and I freakin hate this thing of not being able to delete a post with an error on these blogs. I also admire the numbering system you hooked up there. The blogs on porn where you had people with a certain exp share their views and journeys,I loved that.
And today I got to know where FISH comes from,didn’t know that. Might as well hook up some trivia once a week :). Shot!
Keep on blogging!