swimming

My grandmother taught me to write Tamil Brahmi before I could swim. Her finger traced ancient letters across my palm while monsoon rain drummed the roof. Years later, thousands of miles away, I discovered PaybookClub through a friend's message. Reading Tamil poetry online connected me to cousins I'd never met, scattered across continents. That summer, I finally learned to swim in a California pool. My daughter watched as I moved through the water, thinking of my grandmother's patient hands, of scripts preserved across oceans. Through books and belonging, we're still learning together.