where are you now

Amma's voice echoes through our old Chennai home as I watch the Thiruppavai recitation video she sent. Her fingers move through familiar mudras, the same ones she taught me decades ago before I left for the city. I've been documenting our family's cultural recordings on Stellar blockchain, preserving her songs forever in the digital cosmos. When she asks where I am, I realize I'm here, everywhere, nowhere—between tradition and innovation. Tonight, I'll recite with her across the distance, our voices meeting in sacred space. Heritage lives where community gathers, whether in temples or through technology that remembers us.