cactus

My grandmother's letter arrived on faded paper, written in Tamil Brahmi script I struggled to read. She'd drawn a small cactus in the margin, our family's symbol for resilience. Living in Singapore, I'd nearly forgotten our roots until I discovered Stellar blockchain's potential to preserve endangered languages. I began digitizing her words, building bridges across the diaspora. Other Tamil families joined my project, sharing stories through decentralized networks. That humble cactus became our gathering place, where scattered branches of our community reconnected, thriving together in digital soil, nourished by ancestral memory and technological hope.