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
Simple village life has lessons for us all.
Usia tua bisa jadi indah – berdiam saja.
In the bosom of her family, this old Javanese lady is losing her faculties.
But she is not suffering.
She is loved.
Geoff Fox, 25th February, 2023, Down Under
To survive we have to balance freedom with discipline, caution with courage and adaption in the world with love of God.
Geoff Fox, 17th April, 2020
We need to be where we are loved.
For me, that’s Indonesia.
Most of the lights of my life are there.
Geoff Fox, Easter Sunday, 2020, Terra Nullius
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
Rupert Brooke was born on August 3rd in 1887. On August 3rd in 2014, World War 1 began in Northern Europe when Germany invaded Belgium and declared war on France. The English line of this prayer is from Rupert Brooke’s poem “Peace” published in the month of his death in 2015.
Geoff Fox, Malang, Indonesia, 2019
One of my favourite songs. Click below to listen.
Kebersamaan! A togetherness the West has lost.
The link above is a film of a spontaneous song created and sung by Jaya Kelana of Solo today for today, Indonesia’s National Broadcasting Day. The song is inspired by the thinking of Guilelmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and inventor who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his contribution to the development of radio.
Nurcholish Majid (aka Cak Nur) was an Indonesian intellectual and social peace maker.
Cak was born on this day in March, 1939. The following video clip uses his famous thought on self worth.
The solution to the modern and ancient scourge of terrorism is in the thoughts of people like Cak Nur.
Geoff Fox, Solo, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia, 17th March, 2019
This short film marks the 93rd birthday of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU):
tujuhbelasan.net 