Dear Reader.

Welcome to SacredSpace.

. Below you will find:

With love,

Noelle

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A RITUAL

to honor those who tend to life

MY JOURNEY

‘My journey’ shares some of my practice creating sacred space in my everyday life. In sharing aspects of my intimate, inner world, my hope is to support you in connecting with the vulnerable, sometimes hidden spaces within your own being.

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An Incantation to tend to life. It is perhaps the most resonant feeling in my spirit. A calling. A chant. An embodied dance. A song.

In resistance to relentless systems of violence, I honor the sacredness of each of our breaths. The sacredness of our bodies. Our communities. Our ecosystems. The land we walk upon. The soil. The ants. The spiders. Our hearts. The sacredness of the stolen lives of our martyrs. Our lineages. My mother and my mother's mother. and more and beyond and each and every and all and...

In moments of despair and in moments of joy, tending to life keeps me grounded in living from a place of love and care. It is as intimate and quick as when I release a worm who has been stuck on a hose and place its body back on dirt. It is as deep and lifelong as the processes of disentangling myself from the spiritual threads, the material finances, the comforts that, despite everything I believe in and fight for, continue to embed me to systems of oppression. It is honoring those who have passed by allowing myself to truly grieve the loss of their life. It is fighting for safety and freedom for all beings. I see tending to life as everyday acts and lifetime practices.

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I sing. I pray. I imagine. I write it into liberation. I sing. I pray. I rage. I exhaust. I cry. I engage.

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I call out - amidst images of Israeli death tanks, ritually entering the Jenin Refugee Camp, in the militaristic incantation of destruction, choking oppressiveness & death - let us embody new structures & collective rituals that support life and care. May these calls enter the very fabric of our beings.

May we honor each others labor. May we reckon with one another with love in our hearts. may we collaborate on creative visions. may we call in freedom fighters who lives were taken too soon, to connect in spiritual spells of liberation. may we live in mutual respect, as we move through the ebbs and flows of lifetimes, mirrors for each other, reflecting each other's light. We can't skip the step of embodying the act of tending to life's sacredness NOW, while envisioning new futures.

What we do today creates our tomorrow.

it is slow, in urgent times. it is deep, to be long lasting. it is daily, to remain steadfast. it is listening, to remain humble. it is opening, to challenge us to expand.

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tending to life. it can be practical and loving, like when I began learning how to feed an orphaned pigeon by gently opening its beak to offer food, when it had lost its mom.

It can be soft and gentle, like checking in with my beautiful mama friends just to say hi, i love you and i see you. it can be disciplined and aligned, like drinking herbal tea three times a day, staying connected to the plant medicines, and grounding in their rhythms. it can be our collective voice and bodies, saying enough, no more, we must end this genocide in Palestine.

May we tend to life, in our small ways. in our big ways. in the ways that sometimes feel overwhelming and exhausting but filled with love. and in the ways that feel joyful and supportive and vital to nourishing the threads that connects us to one another, our bodies, this land, this era, this moment. May we be reminded that we are here to tend, to steward, to nurture, to love and care for life, in all its sacred manifestations.

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SPOTLIGHT

Robina Khalid: Midwife / PhD / Writer (she/her/hers) practices decolonial birthwork for collective liberation. She is a Pakistani American Midwife of 9 years & an unschooling, abolitionist mama of 4 as well as the founder of Small Things Grow Midwifery​

I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND following Robina on Instagram or subscribing to her substack. Her revolutionary, poetic and insightful writings are filled with immense wisdom and intimate care about birth & birthwork as it relates to collective liberation.

UPDATES

I am grateful to be heading upstate New York to rest in connection with my family, before I come back to Brooklyn to continue the mystical, decolonial, creative journey of collectively devising The Magic Bullet with LubDub Theatre.

In solidarity and community, I continue to work with the Friends of The Freedom Theatre, based in the Jenin Refugee Camp in Occupied Palestine. I honor TFT's incredible legacy, steadfastness and creative vision as leaders in the Cultural Intifada, amidst constant attacks and invasions at the hands of the Israeli army.

Along with facilitating workshops and meditations, I am currently building the website for SacredSpace, to have an online home to share my healing and creative offerings of Collective Spaces of SACRED CONNECTION for Collective Liberation. More on that at the end of the summer, but always feel free to reach out about this if you want to learn more or connect.

with love,

Noelle