4 Aug 1998

Hi all,

So this is it. I am off to Denmark. The flight is at 5pm today from
Chicago and I will reach Ulfborg by about 5pm Wed local time. Sorry for
rushing away without bidding farewell properly but the last few days here turned out to be far more hectic than I had planned for. I still need to reply to several of you which I will do as soon as I get a computer a/c in Denmark which should be by the weekend. I will send you my contact info once I get there.

For now I have a new email address:  ****@hotmail.com (yes, another one bites the hotmail dust!), though my current CS email address in Wisc-Mad should be operational at least until the end of August. So keep writing.

If things go as planned I should be in India for about a month sometime
around Feb 1999, so I hope to see some of you then. Whenever you make a trip through Europe, be sure to visit Denmark and look me up. Meanwhile I leave you with this …

Farewell
——–
A wandering soul
on a lonely road
halts to find a hearth.

Cold and bitter from the winter wind,
he rests his weary heart.

Soft fingers of
tender friendship
awake him from his dreams.

Fed and clothed, warm and happy,
again he braves the cold.

The meeting was brief,
his debts were many,
to repay in kind and deed.

“I do not have much to give in thanks,
so accept these meager words:

The whisper of love
will linger in the air
long after the words are spoke.

Listen to the silence, my friends, listen.”

Take care,
Arvind.