For freedom, patriotism & civilised humanity.
This little Javanese girl is Talia.
She is eleven years old.
Her family has never had a lot of money for food.
It shows.
But she can still have sweet, innocent fun using an empty shopping bag as a hat.
Praise the Lord.
Geoff Fox, 5th March, 2023, Austral-Indonesia
Afrim is a man deeply committed to bringing people together with the beauty of flowers in a spirit of love.
But I sense that he is deeply concerned about what he sees in some people in his immediate neighbourhood and across Victoria and Australia. He says: “We are at war with our own politicians. But my friends in the freedom movement are now standing up for the moral values which the Anzacs and all other diggers fought for.”
In Afrim’s eyes, I see the same quiete, kind, thoughtful, family-based determination which I have been privileged to honour in my own father’s eyes from the time when dad was involved in fighting fascism in the 1940’s.
God Bless Afrim.
God Bless Freedom.
Geoff Fox, 19th August, 2022, Australia
"IF WE GO TO MOTHER NATURE FOR CONSOLATION, SHE WON'T ALLOW US TO GO AWAY UNCARED." Javanese Women's Rights Pioneer, Raden Ajeng Kartini, 21st January, 1901
On this day, the 16th anniversary of the death of my mother, Margaret Fox, I have contemplated the meaning for me of motherhood in the Founders’ Garden at the historic building, Ercildoune, in Footscray, Australia.
Lest We Forget.
Geoff Fox, 6th September, 2022, Australia
Bishop Mark Edwards was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia, and left when he was three year’s old. So, he is from Indonesia.
His father was an engineer who worked for Shell and met his mother in the Netherlands.
Geoff Fox, Father’s Day, 2022, Australia
(The words added to these images of Bishop Mark Edwrads are by Geoff Fox, inspired by the Bishop.)
Tanya is asking us to get better at being what we are.
She believes we need more of the the youthful, creative, courageous spirit of Ned Kelly.
Geoff Fox, 30th January, 2022, Down Under
Kartini’s love was gentle.
She lifted people slow.
Geoff Fox April 30, 2021, Austral-Indonesia
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
This is a transcreation from the Indonesian language poem “Ayah” by Maman A Majid Binfas.
Fathers and mothers build us.
Geoff Fox, 21st December, 2020, Australia
The family is the foundation of social life.
Few thinkers and activists in world history have achieved more than Raden Adjeng Kartini of Central Java achieved through the support of her family.
Praise the Lord.
Geoff Fox, 2nd March, 2020
The love of mothers for their children underpins every single form of growth there is in the human world.
Geoff Fox, former midwife, 17th February, 2020
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