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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
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Elizabeth H. Cottrell I capture ideas and post them in Trello, color-coded by category. When I get writer’s block, I peruse that list for inspiration. But since I write non…moreI capture ideas and post them in Trello, color-coded by category. When I get writer’s block, I peruse that list for inspiration. But since I write non-fiction, my problem is usually having too many things I want to write about, not enough.(less)
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Book Review: The Miracle of the Roses by Angela Costa Simões

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The Miracle of the Roses
O Milagre das Rosas
A bilingual Children’s Book: English and Portuguese
Story by Angela Costa Simões

Illustrations by Mariana Flores
Published 2026 by Riso Books

I’m often asked to review books, and at first I declined this one, thinking it wasn’t a good match for my Heartspoken theme of Connection. I changed my mind, however, when I learned a bit more about it.

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Readers who followed the survivors of a dying Earth in Entropy will be glad to know their journey continues in Diaspora, the second installment of Dana Hayward’s trilogy. This is thoughtful, science-forward science fiction that shifts from escape to ...more
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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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