Amma stands in the driveway of the home where her mother and younger brother live in San Jose.
Kalki, the weekly magazine from India that Amma's mother would read, nestles next to the notebook where her mother wrote "Shri Rama Jayam" in Samskritam daily.
Amma stands outside mid-morning and waters the rose bushes that her mother and younger brother, Cheena, planted years ago.
Amma (right) and Appa (middle) enjoy their new granddaughter in their Philadelphia home.
Cheena (left) and Amma (right) choose an urn for their mother's ashes at the Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park in San Jose.
San Jose, California, April 2017. Amma, center, wipes her eyes, as she visits her mother in a hospice home, hours before her mother would pass away.
Rose flowers, with only the stem remaining, are left on the kitchen table after one of the various religious funeral ceremonies for Amma's mother.
Amma (center) coils up the backyard hose while two Sikh men teardown the tables and tent after a post funeral luncheon honoring Amma's mother.
Amma (back center) watches while Pandit Sivasankar Hemmanur (front center) performs funeral rights for her mother.
Amma holds out her mobile phone so her younger brother Cheena, resting in bed as he deals with stage 4 cancer, can answer a phone call.
Amma (right) and her older brother Raman (left) perform a funeral rite in which their mother's soul is released to the next dimension.
Dishes remain in the kitchen sink, waiting to be washed, after one of the funeral rituals for Amma's mother.
Amma sits in the kitchen of her mother and younger brother's home looking out the window into the backyard.
A collection of items and medicine rests on the bedside table of Amma's younger brother, Cheena.
Amma enjoys playing ball with her grandson at her daughter's home in Philadelphia.
Amma naps on the family room sofa in her younger brother's home in San Jose.
The analog phone in the kitchen of Amma's younger brother's home remains silent and unused.
San Jose, California, October 2017. Amma sits with her younger brother Cheena, holding his hand, as he passes away while in hospice care.
Amma walks out of her mother and younger brother's home, heading back to her home in Philadelphia.
The sofa that Amma's mother would sit on, that Amma's younger brother would lie on, that Amma's would nap on, remains unused in the family room.