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Elizabeth H. Cottrell

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Elizabeth's circuitous career has taken her from published leprosy researcher to stay-at-home mother, to community activist and leader serving on nonprofit and corporate boards, to ham radio operator, to freelance writer/editor and blogger at Heartspoken.com.

Above all, she is a connector and encourager whose writing explores the four essential connections of the Heartspoken Life: with God, with Self, with Others, and with Nature. Her expertise and passion for note writing on display in her 2022 book comes at just the right time to touch a pandemic world desperately in search of connection. What better way to connect when we're forced to stay apart physically than to write and send a heartspoken note or letter? Elizabeth is the right person ...more

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Heartspoken: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire

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Daily Lenten Haiku 2026

Title Daily Lenten Haiku showing cross on a heart-shaped bed of stones

Haiku is an ancient Japanese form of poetry consisting of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, and five. In a mysterious way, the strict limitation sometimes evokes stronger expression.

I was inspired in 2025 to write daily haiku after reading Emily P. Freeman’s haiku in her Lenten Collection for her Quiet Collection app. The practice was so meaningful that I have continued it this y

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

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“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
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“So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
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