Over three years of making the temple reachable, and not one of these entries was written on the day.
Every day of the work, with the date it happened and how sure I am of that date. This is the record, and everything else on the site is built out of it.
The entries
2026
I have been posting for years without knowing who I was talking to
I did not build anything today.
2025
A cement floor at the Kamakshi Amma shrine, and that was the end of it
We laid the cement floor under Kamakshi Amma, and that was the end of it.
2024
Kamakshi Amma installed, three years and three months after the Bhoomi Pooja
Three years and three months after the Bhoomi Pooja, Kamakshi Amma went into her place.
Kamakshi Amma, from six feet below the ground to a shrine
I did not plan this one either.
Filling the hole, then the bridge, then the road
This is where the rain had done its damage, and putting it right took two separate pieces of work.
The first Mahashivaratri of Rama Lingeshwara, with the whole path lit
Six weeks after we installed him, Mahashivaratri came, and it was the first one anybody had spent with Rama Lingeshwara Swamy there.
A discarded Shiva Lingam installed, on Ayodhya Rama Pratishta day
Before any of this we raised the ground six feet.
2023
The whole of the first year went on the water and the ground
People assume the road came first.
I threw a stone and told Shiva I was starting
For a year after the steps I did nothing at the temple.
held to the month
2021
Then the rain came and took the way in.
Cement steps up the hill, after three months carrying sand
The path was uneven stone and people slipped on it.
Bhoomi Pooja at Amaralingeshwara Kona, on Varalakshmi Vratham
We did the Bhoomi Pooja on Varalakshmi Vratham, before any construction, and asked for the work ahead to go well.
2020
I want you to see it the way it was, because nothing after this means much otherwise.
held to the year
