[claire]August 3rd, 11:20pm India

[Mark Holmes]

Hi everyone,

We held the cremation for Tara this morning and again it was beautiful 
and amazing.  It was just a finished body at this point, so the 
ceremony was still very respectful and beautiful, yet light and 
wonderful too.  It felt very, very appropriate, and a lovely end to 
this chapter of the story.

Clare left tonight with our tremendous love and thanks, and with some 
sadness too.  I feel she is like a sister to me, and I think to Corey 
as well, even though their time was short together.  I'm hoping that 
she'll have some time to write some of her own story of her time 
here........... hint hint Clare ;-)

Speaking of stories, how would you like to help write this one?  There 
will be a pilgrimage leaving from Delhi on September 1st to celebrate 
Tara's life and spread her remains in 3 holy places in the north of 
India, including her holiest city, Varanasi.  This was just suggested 
by Swami Govinda today, and naturally we would need to know soon if you 
would like to come so that train/travel arrangements can be made on 
this end (we would make travel arrangements within India; you would 
need to get yourself here).  You would need to get to Delhi anytime 
before Sept. 1, and plan to be here for 3 weeks; longer if you can 
manage.  This will literally be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to 
travel with Tara's favorite Swami to some of the holiest places in the 
world, and celebrate her life and spread her remains along the way.  
Please come.

And having offered this chance, I need to say that I'm overwhelmed with 
e-mails and completely short of time right now.  I appreciate the notes 
of thanks and stories from everyone; and while I don't at all want to 
stop that, I would ask that you hold off for a few days trying to 
contact me as it's simply too much right now.

At this rate it will be some time before I can properly write about 
what's been happening; but suffice it to say that it's pretty 
incredible, and I need to simply be here for it right now, and sharing 
about it will need to wait a bit.

Much Love,

Mark