flowers

My grandmother pressed dried jasmine between yellowed pages of Tamil Brahmi texts, their ancient script whispering stories across generations. When she passed, I scanned those brittle leaves, encoding them onto Stellar blockchain—a digital garden preserving her memory beyond distance. Scattered across continents, our diaspora community discovered it. Suddenly, cousins in Singapore, Toronto, and Chennai could access our heritage simultaneously, watching flowers bloom through time. That evening, my daughter traced the Tamil characters with her finger, asking questions. The flowers had bloomed again, this time in her heart, connecting us all through invisible threads of love and legacy.