Sad, profoundly sad, as you might expect. But angry? Never. “How could I be angry . . . surrounded by so much love?“ Scherr said last week during an interview at the wooded sanctuary in the mountains of Nelson County that is home to the Synchronicity Foundation for Modern Spirituality. The love came not only from family and the Synchronicity community but also from thousands of strangers worldwide who expressed sympathy and support for Scherr after her husband Alan, 58, and daughter Naomi, 13, were among the more than 170 killed in attacks last Nov. 26 in Mumbai, India. Members of Synchronicity, including the Scherrs, were in India on a spiritual retreat.

FABER Nearly a year after terrorist bullets killed her husband and daughter, Kia Scherr hopes her new Web site will help others. Scherr helped create the One Life Alliance site to promote discussion of the “sacred nature and interconnectedness” of human life in response to the Nov. 26 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, that killed her family. She designed the site with Master Charles Cannon, founder of the Synchronicity Foundation. The group, based in Nelson County, espouses meditation and peaceful, holistic living. Scherr is a longtime foundation member, as were her family members.

Alan Scherr’s decades of commitment to spirituality and simple living earned him recognition as an inspiring teacher of astrology, self-awareness and meditation. Scherr, 58, described his life as a “challenging . . . solitary journey.“ That journey led him to Mumbai, India, where he and his daughter Naomi, 13, were among more than 150 people killed by terrorists in attacks that began Wednesday.

People have come from around the world to seek peace at the Synchronicity Foundation’s retreat center at Horseshoe Mountain. The foundation is a nonprofit spiritual organization founded in 1983.