Memorial Trees #2 An Aboriginal Reinvention Of The Dedication

When different cultures meet in a spirit of creative freedom, amazing things can happen.

In the following micro-movie made in his Wominjeka Garden earlier this week, Uncle Glenn Loughrey turned the soil for a memorial planting and found eight words which constitute brilliant insight into what the Australian tradition of memorial tree plantings can become.

Lest We Forget.

Bunjil watches over us.

Let Bunjil fly!

To resolve the differences between competing cultures, we must seek what’s good and keep away from what’s wrong. (Amar Makruf Nahi Mungkar)

Geoff Fox, 24th September, 2022, Naarm, Down Under

Perjalanan Hidup #1 Making Smart Moves

Early this morning Bishop David Farrer said to me: “Nomadic life and pilgrimage are what its all about.”

“Its learning on the move. In the deepest Aboriginalities of Jesus and Baiame, there is no such thing as a straight line.” was the expansion upon the Bishop’s thought which Father Glenn Loughrey and I devised later on in the morning.

Living well depends upon discourse or musyawarah, which I also like to call The Word.

Geoff Fox, 2nd February, 2022, Down Under