Journey of the Heart

  A Call to Share and Spead the Love by Tammy Stone Takahashi  Dear beautiful humans of the world , Here’s something every single one of shares: we are living through a time of massive transition.  Massive. Can you feel it? It’s hard. It hurts. Everything is shaking and trembling and we feel unsteady, unsure.   But the beauty of times of transition is that they contain the seeds of deep and lasting transformation. The past few years have absolutely shaken us to the core, haven’t they? But they have also inspired us to reflect on the life we have been living until now and the life we want to live on the other side of all this chaos and unrest. Reflecting leads to making decisions that feel good and aligned with who we want to be, and I believe it’s one of our great superpowers as generators of a beautiful future. I can feel this in my bones, along with a deep calling to help water and nurture these seeds of transformation until we are living in the new world of o...

circle of elders  that time love took over the sky miracles took hold in the heart and seeds of joy sprouted at just the right moment, as we, who feel sorrow and despair so deeply, knew it would - we'd stopped searching where joy could not be found, and took to the temple of our bodies, where, within every cell, and every blood-filled route to the very heart of being, the sacred gathers like a circle of elders holding hands and chanting the songs of our salvation, and our storied continuance. Photo by the author Tammy Stone Takahashi  is the author of Yoga Healing Love . A writer, poet, photographer and student of life. Her short stories and poems have been widely published and anthologized and she has worked on several anthologies as co-editor. Her published works include a book of photography, "Tag it! Toronto: A City's Imagination Revolution" (2009), and the poetry collections  Formation: Along the Ganges and Back Again   (2015),   Little Poems for Big Seaso...