Author: Austral-Indonesian Tujuhbelasan
The Fundamentals #11 LOGOS SPEAKS FREELY

I believe that modern theology needs to focus more on Freedom, especially freedom of speech.
Logos is one key.
Geoff Fox, 6th March, 2021, Down Under
Pepohonan #4 Jaya Tree Poetry
When poetry goes from one language to anohter it has to change to remain poetry.
I call this transcreation,
Dwijaya Saifil Munir sent me a wonderful spontaneous poem about the holiness of trees.
I transcreated it into English.
Then in performance I transcreated those lines into a homage to a big city garden tree.
I then transcreated that into a partial reconstruction of the original Indonesian poem in the subtitles.
As Paul McCartney wrote about his landmark indie album, Wings’ Wild Life, “Can you dig it?”
Geoff Fox, 17th February, 2021 Terra Nullius
Sustainable Development #16 Personal Survival in The Culture War
Cultural Warrior Philipp Zey travelled around the world on a bicycle with a trombone, a golf club and a German pasta shaper.
He shared music, his golf swing and pasta meals using locally available ingredients with hosts and new friends in the cause of peace, understanding and freedom across and up and down Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.
It is unlikely that anyone in the world has ever played didgeridoo on a trombone down a drain in Australia better than Philipp Zey did for my camera just because I asked him to.
Aboriginal elder the late Aunty Dot Peeters said his playing was “excellent”.
Geoff Fox, February 1 , 2021, Terra Nullius
The Fundamentals # 10 IT ALL BALANCES OUT

American Gender Equalist Tim Goldich from Lake Forest, Illinois, has deep insight into what people need to understand to be at their best.
Geoff Fox, 31st January, 2021, Down Under
Pepohonan #3 LIVING IN TREES
How many of us are looking for a home?
17th January, 2021, Down under
The Fundamentals #9 Managing Our Times

Amanda Woods of San Diego is young and smart.
I am older. But I learn from and with her.
Martin Luther King Jr, born on this date in 1929 taught that “…… the wealth of cultural and technological progress in America is a result of the commonwealth of inpouring contributions.”
This human commonwealth exists across races, times and places.
When it is shared in freedom and justice, it can grow.
When it become tyrannous, it dies.
Geoff Fox, 16th January, 2021, Terra Nullius
The Fundamentals #8 FREEDOM

Reflecting upon American passion for freedom and the role America played in 1944 and 1945 in ending Japanese colonialism in Indonesia, Jakarta poet Maman A Majd Binfas sent me the above Indonesian words.
Lest We Forget
Geoff Fox, 7th January 2021, Down Under
Literary Tujuhbelasan # 13 POETIC LIFE

Poets often say the same things in different ways.
Maman A Majid Binfas writes and teaches in Jakarta where wisdoms grow.
Geoff Fox, 4th January, 2020, Terra Nullius
Literary Tujuhbelasan #12 The Children

The Indonesian text here is an edited version of a quote from a Rumi inspired passage in the book “Mamonisme” by Maman A Majid Binfas of Jakarta. It means “Give a home to their bodies but not to their souls. Their souls reside in the future.”
My English lines are inspired by an American equivalent of Rumi, country singer Paul Siebel.
Lest we forget: children can unite us.
Without them our world dies.
Geoff Fox 31st December 2020 Down Under