Heart's open
You, me, and the many
Dear community,
I’m writing to let you know my books are open again for holistic deathcare. I also extend other invitations here to join me in presence and action.
Love and solidarity,
Staci
After giving birth six months ago, I have more space in my heart and rest in my body to resource others again.
I know giving birth has deepened my holistic deathcare practice. I’m more loving and patient; my practice more devotional and fierce. There’s a wildness I now intimately understand. The rest, I will learn in time. From where I am, I’m ready to meet you where you are.
I offer death midwifery and pre-planning services, contemplative care for death awareness, and grief companionship. If you are in need of support through death/loss/change, and want to learn if our collaboration feels right, you can directly book a discovery call here. Learn more by visiting stacibushea.care. Previous clients can always book a 1:1 session as needed.
My book Solution 305: Dying Livingly has been out for a couple of months in the EU and it’s now available in the US. To all who have (or plan to) read it, thank you.
The next book launch event is Wednesday, 11 June, 19-21:00 (tomorrow) at Page Not Found, The Hague. We’ll screen the film 1:3RD OF THE BODY ARCHIVE, 33 SECONDS EACH. 3 3 3 by artist and natural death researcher G, and I’ll be in conversation with writer, artist and grief worker Anna Arov. Really looking forward to this. Maybe see you there?
We held the first launch event at beloved San Serriffe in Amsterdam mid-May. I launched the book at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios with the Department of Ultimology (Fiona Hallinan and Kate Strain) in Dublin, and then at E-WERK Luckenwaldein in the context of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, Part 6: Love and Lament presented by Schering Stiftung, Berlin and co-curated by Filipa Ramos and Lucia Pietroiusti. Still processing the powerful conversation I got to be part of on the panel with the inimitable poet Claudia Rankine.
For all present to these gatherings, I’m grateful for your attentive listening and honored for all the tears shed!
If you’d like to host a reading, event program with others in death/grief care, or engage with the book in another way, like a conversation or review, please get in touch.
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I’m excited about the internet again since I joined special fish, a community word processor for writing, poetry, journaling, and logging. Like many of you, I am moving away (slowly, but surely) from meta and other large platforms and would like a people- and planet-friendly web. Consider joining me there and we can embrace early 2000s-style connection.
“Madleen must be released immediately,” United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese said. “Breaking the siege is a legal duty for states and a moral imperative for all of us. Every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together – united, they will be unstoppable.”
With a message adapted from this template, join me in flooding the inboxes of many people in the Dutch government with a plea to support Madleen crew members and other similar aid efforts, and ultimately for Palestinians and humanity. It’s a small action but it counts. Ending the siege, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, freeing Palestine – it’s all deathcare.
The next multi-faith prayer circle is on 15 June, 14:00-15:30 ET / 20:00-21:30. After taking action in the ways we are able to on this global day of mobilization for Gaza, we can tend to our hearts.
We are invited to join in collective prayer as we hold space for all those enduring unimaginable loss and heartbreak: for all the martyrs, for those who continue to fight and scream "no." For Palestine, for Lebanon, for Syria, for Sudan, for Congo—for every corner of the earth where suffering persists. Register here.