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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/06/2025

pt. 2/2 You all brought them happiness and an emotional outlet throughout their sickness with your kind words and the platform you provided them. Her husband and children

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/06/2025

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 30/05/2025

i did a podcast about my short story the diamond mountain, published by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social and hosted by @chelseaharamia.bsky.social and @kmdoublev.bsky.social more by other writers will come

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm happy to announce the first episode of Story Phi is live! Story Phi is a podcast developed by @kmdoublev.bsky.social and me. It's about storytellers, story lovers, and philosophy Intro music composed by @hane.bsky.social and our first episode features the wonderfully talented @helendecruz.net

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life. helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

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Can’t take it with you

I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

My favorite piece by the channel, by Anna is this exquisite chaconne here by zamboni youtu.be/7HmxPVo9KOc?...

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Giovanni Zamboni CECCONA Anna Kowalska - liuto attiorbato, www.luteduo.com

YouTube video by LUTEDUO

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

Akkoord shld Allport i hate speech to text. It's just horrible.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

My brilliant lute teacher Anton Birula made this video for me. Have a listen! If you feel so inclined pls subscribe to his channel LuteDuo. Let's get it to 10k. Pls reskeet. youtu.be/2EWrH0gRphQ?...

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, Gigue BWV 1012, Anton Birula - baroque lute by Jacek Łozak

YouTube video by LUTEDUO

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

Thank you also the link w Akkoord is ininteresting

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is a beautiful reflection on the way we characterize others and the importance of the idiographic in that. Brings me back to my Allport roots. Most elegant integration of personality is the nomothetic-idiographic for me.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

They will advertise it widely on Facebook and other media I think I will ask.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

I have two friends who are setting this up after my desth. We moved around so much and the precarity that comes w that...so not managed to save a lot plus losing main income. I'm worried for my family but that should help! Thank you

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

Oh yes, narrated in gentle voice I daily see nature red in tooth and claw

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

But it remains a financial, emotional catastrophe for my family. My youngest 12 now and I just don't know how to parse that that he will not have a mother. And my husband sacrificed too much for my career. And now he's here in Saint Louis with an uncertain future

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 29/05/2025

We are trying to make the best of a horrible situation. It is not easy, butt onte advantage is that I get to say goodbye to everyone. That wouldn't be the case if it's for a car accident or some other sudden event. And I placed all my affairs in order which is also good.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 27/05/2025

I am also born in the working class! Dad bricklayer mom homemaker

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 27/05/2025

It's not too far away! Alex Douglas is a scholar who explores similarities in the views @axdouglas.bsky.social

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Bas Wisselink @baswisselink.com · 26/05/2025

Recreational sex so we can all get on with work!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

So many important things are discussed at conferences. When international travel is dangerous & science is under threat & research funding is being slashed & we know how bad flying is for the climate & we have technology to make it happen, the fact that all conferences aren't hybrid is wild. 🧪

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

my publisher @thepinkhydra.com also offers my novella outside Amazon. Just $3.20 for a two hour fantasy in a beautiful secondary world and city which reminds you of Oxford. A comfort optimistic story without powerful and wealthy protagonists

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The Artistry of Magic by thepinkhydra

A magical love story between a middle-aged scholar and a homeless magician, by Helen De Cruz

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Hospice. Maybe a few months. Hopefully

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Can someone alt text this? Too ill to do it myself. Thanks

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🇨🇦🍁 @mloa.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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'The starting-point is for you to understand human nature and what has happened to it.* You see, our nature wasn't originally the same as it is now: it has changed. Firstly, there used to be three human genders, not just two-male and female-as there are nowadays. There was also a third, which was a combination of both the other two. Its name has survived, but the gender itself has died out. In those days, there was a distinct type of androgynous person, not just the word, though like the word the gender too combined male and female; nowadays, however, only the word remains, and that counts as an insult.*

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Ah my good friend Spinoza. Your life was short but we do not find anything lacking. I am not of your caliber but find consolation in it anyway

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

If anyone can supply alt? I am very sick and unable to type

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Plato on recreational sex in Symposium. A few pages further he also talks about lesbian relationships.

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necoras.bsky.social @necoras.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Oh, he wrote a lot of other music. But all anybody ever wanted to hear was the one song. His "fans" did him dirty. They'd go to a concert, wait for the one song, go crazy, and then leave. In the middle of the show.

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How the world's biggest song caused Gotye to quit

YouTube video by David Hartley

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Was reminded about this due to two queer ppl using this text for wedding vows

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

On nonbinary gender, Plato, Symposium, 370 bc

Sorry I am very ill and lack force to transcribe

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

Thanks! Fascinating. I am terminally ill and do sleep whenever my body needs it. I've settled on sleep 9 to 12 pm, then read or watch Netflix for 2 hours, then sleep from 2 to 8 am plus then a nap in afternoon. I am sick but wonder if this might be my natural pattern.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 26/05/2025

What is wild to me is that humans until industrialization would have two blocks of sleep. After a first sleep of some hours they would wake up and do stuff: visit friends, have sex, a small meal etc. And then they'd turn back in for a second longer sleep. So don't worry if you wake in the night.

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 25/05/2025

In our video Foal is unsure whose advice to follow: are the animals around her both knowledgeable and well-intentioned? Explore themes of trust and misinformation in #thephilosophygarden #philsky #edusky sites.google.com/view/the-phi... #philosophyforeveryone

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 25/05/2025

Relatively stable but not much time left

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 24/05/2025

An editor saw the potential of this novella and published it. It's selling well and has glowing reviews. Yet it was rejected so many times. I knew it's a good story. Don't give up. www.amazon.com/Artistry-Mag...