by Jackie Bailey | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old daughter. I...
by Jackie Bailey | May 16, 2016 | Random insights, Uncategorized
I have had this question bubbling around in my head for weeks (months, years). Why do Australian governments fund the arts so poorly? It’s not an economically rational decision. There is ample evidence of the value of the arts to the economy. Politicians are...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 4, 2014 | Random insights, Uncategorized
Something pernicious is afoot. It’s not a conspiracy; except that it is. As many of you will know, I research for a living. I spend many of my waking hours talking to people and then thinking about what they said, what it tells me about their views of themselves...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 3, 2014 | Random insights, Uncategorized
The first time I tried, and failed, to remove myself from God, I was 10 years old. I lay on the carpet, playing with the dust motes in a shaft of light which came in through a sneaky gap I had made between the heavy, dark pink drapes my mother kept closed all year...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 2, 2014 | depression, Random insights, Uncategorized
I sleep alone. I am beautifully, deeply, very married to a man who doesn’t take it personally. I tell people that it is because he is a snorer and I am a light sleeper, both of which is true. But as we all know, there can be more than one truth which relates to...
by Jackie Bailey | Oct 8, 2014 | depression, Random insights
I have always wanted a pet. Ever since my sister brought home Fitzy, the yappy little mongrel, I thought, yes. Finally, we are going to be normal. But Fitzy was only ever on loan. We were looking after him while my sister arranged to buy a dog which would be an...
