Pebble’s Galaxy: a blog.

  • A Conversation I Still Replay in My Head: The Conversation That Never Learned to End #WriteAPageADay

    A Conversation I Still Replay in My Head: The Conversation That Never Learned to End #WriteAPageADay

    Some conversations do not end when the voices fall silent. They linger like heat in stone after sunset, replaying themselves in the quiet hours, reshaping who we are each time we listen again. This poem traces one such exchange—intimate, unfinished, and slowly expanding into a meditation on memory, gravity, and the vastness that listens back.…

  • What the Ear Learns Before the Eye

    What the Ear Learns Before the Eye

    Silence arrives before language, before the naming of things. It is not empty but textured, holding breath and meaning within it. Sound, unseen yet deeply felt, travels through memory, nature, and the cosmos, carrying us across time and inner landscapes. Together, silence and sound become invisible guides—shaping the soul, opening doors to reflection, and connecting…

  • Ayurjyotisha: Where Ayurveda Meets Jyotisha in the Cosmic Science of Health and Healing

    Ayurjyotisha: Where Ayurveda Meets Jyotisha in the Cosmic Science of Health and Healing

    Ayurjyotisha weaves together Ayurveda and Vedic astrology into a unified science of health, healing, and longevity. This comprehensive guide takes readers from foundational concepts to advanced clinical and karmic applications, revealing how doshas, grahas, nakshatras, and planetary cycles shape the body, mind, and destiny—offering a deeply personalized approach to wellness rooted in ancient Indian wisdom…

  • Holding the Sacred: Princess Kundavai and Sembiyan Mahadevi on Faith, Power, and Continuity in Chola India

    Holding the Sacred: Princess Kundavai and Sembiyan Mahadevi on Faith, Power, and Continuity in Chola India

    Across the Chola centuries, two women shaped faith in profoundly different ways. Sembiyan Mahadevi built stone temples that anchored Shaiva devotion in permanence, while Princess Kundavai sustained religious life through careful administration, plural patronage, and ritual continuity. Read together, their stories reveal how faith survives not only through monuments, but through care, negotiation, and the…

  • The Divine Architect: Princess Kundavai’s Quiet Architecture of Faith in Chola India

    The Divine Architect: Princess Kundavai’s Quiet Architecture of Faith in Chola India

    In the tenth century, when empires expanded through war and stone, Princess Kundavai shaped something quieter and more enduring. Through inscriptions, temple endowments, and carefully sustained rituals, she practiced faith as governance—funding lamps, feeding priests, protecting Jain and Vaishnava institutions, and guiding the spiritual economy of the Chola world. This deeply researched essay traces her…

  • Ten Quiet Fires for 2026: A Vision Board Written in Starlight

    Ten Quiet Fires for 2026: A Vision Board Written in Starlight

    My vision board is quieter than paper and pins. It lives behind my ribs, where intentions take longer to form and therefore last. Ten quiet fires guide me through 2026—not as resolutions, but as constellations I return to whenever I forget where I am going. #VisionBoard2026 #FreeVersePoetry #InnerJourney #CosmicReflections #PebbleGalaxy

  • One Page a Day: The Quiet Practice of Showing Up

    One Page a Day: The Quiet Practice of Showing Up

    Writing does not begin with inspiration or perfect conditions. It begins with presence. One page a day is not a productivity trick but a quiet commitment—to show up, to listen inwardly, and to trust that small, consistent acts can slowly reshape a year. @Blogchatter #WritingHabit #SlowCreativity #PebbleGalaxy #MindfulWriting

  • The Quiet Architecture of Strength

    The Quiet Architecture of Strength

    Strength is not always loud or visible. Sometimes it is the courage to remain calm in the presence of negativity, to protect one’s inner world, and to walk away without needing to explain or defend. In choosing silence over reaction and peace over provocation, we rise—not above others, but above the noise that seeks to…

  • When Sound Was Sacred: The Lost Architecture of Ancient Ritual Verse

    When Sound Was Sacred: The Lost Architecture of Ancient Ritual Verse

    Explore how ancient civilizations architected sacred sound—from Vedic chants’ precise tones to Gothic churches’ reverberant Gregorian echoes—revealing sound as cosmic order. Uncover modern challenges in digitizing these lost sonic rituals amid ethical and acoustic preservation debates. #SacredSound #RitualArchitecture #VedicChant #IntangibleHeritage #SonicCosmology

  • Before Poetry Had Authors: How Civilizations Remembered Through Form

    Before Poetry Had Authors: How Civilizations Remembered Through Form

    Before poetry became personal expression, it served a far older purpose: preservation. In early civilizations, poems were not authored, owned, or improvised. They were repeated with precision, shaped by rhythm and structure to survive across generations without writing. This essay explores how form—not authorship—once carried memory, belief, and identity, and what we may have lost…

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