The 88 Hearts Project is an experiment on how far one person’s love can go.
The project was born from heartbreak and the subsequent healing and discovery of my heart’s ability to love infinitely.
My exboyfriend is a talented artist who gave me a painting for my birthday a number of years ago. He spent hours working on it and poured endless amounts of love and energy into it.
Our relationship ended a year or so later. My heart was shattered. The painting went into my closet to be forgotten.
For years I struggled with what to do with the painting, because, honestly, I knew I would never be able to have it hanging in my home again. It brought back too many memories that prevented me from moving on with my life.
The struggle I had with the painting wasn’t about the person or the failed relationship–it was a struggle with what to do about the love that was embedded in the painting– the power of that love and its creation. I could not (or should not?) throw away or destroy that love. Instead, I needed a way to put it back into the universe–to somehow spread that love to others who need it.
After many discussions with trusted friends, and a trip to Burning Man, I came to the conclusion that burning it would be a good release, and the love would be put back into the universe.
The Universe disagreed, and the night before the scheduled burning I had a vivid dream where I was giving people different colored hearts, spreading love to friends and strangers alike, bringing smiles to the faces of the downtrodden, spreading the infinite love in my heart.
And so the 88 Hearts Project was born.
I took the painting from its hiding place, dusted it off, and began tracing a heart template onto the back of the canvas. When it was full, I cut the around the shapes. After a few hours, all of the hearts were cut, I counted and there were 88. As I flipped the hearts over, I was delighted by how each one was equally beautiful and powerful. I could feel the infinite love shining through.
It turns out that 88 is a very auspicious number.
88 is the number of keys on a piano–a number that creates beautiful music that touches people’s lives every day. 88 is the number of recognized constellations in the night sky–constellations that have guided travellers and inspired exploreres for centuries. 88 symbolizes fortune and luck in Chinese culture–it is the luckiest of numbers. In Japan the number 88 represents “a great many” or “infinite” number of things. 88 is the shorthand for “hugs and kisses” in morse code. 88 is used to mean “goodbye” in Chinese slang.
Each heart in my project stems from one person’s love. Each heart has a story that will continue to develop and be documented on this website. Please explore each heart as it takes its journey, and be amazed at how many people one heart can touch. Maybe one day you will receive one of the 88 Hearts and you will become part of this story about how far one person’s love can reach.
Thank you for visiting.
With infinite love,
Carly Rogers-Dayton
The 88 Hearts Project 
I stumbled upon your website since I began noticing double 8s, specifically after having started meditating again and getting nudges from the universe to look up the topic of Twin flames. I started researching the topic at length to finally “reunite” or become aware of my twin flame who I had met ‘8’ years ago. (Weird).. A flood of strange coincidences from memories growing up as far as early childhood started to pop up in my head since ive stumbled upon this (the tf research began after my twin girls’ 4th bday party on 9/12/14)…the feelings I have for my tf can be bluntly put, an unconditional divine love. For years I’ve been trying to make sense of it, hide from it, forget about it but now after all is said and done–the connection was not just in my head, it was real, still is real and is the closest thing to living in heaven (on earth). Im conflicted with periods of great loss to great elation having made this discovery and I trust the universe to bring us back together when the time is right.
Note: I also feel at times I should be put away in a mental institution lol this is all just too weird…wonderfully weird!
Any comments or feedback is greatly desired (and appreciated)..