The Grapevine Art & Soul Salon

In Memoriam: IVAN EDWIN LESTER

Sometimes we are led without knowing it to make choices based on archetypal images stirring in the soul. Little did I anticipate that when I chose the theme home for this season's website issue that my own literal home and the metaphorical home of my soul would change so radically: Ivan Lester, my dearest companion for the past l5 years, died on March 14, 2007. Ivan was a man of many dimensions, of multifarious flames that burned on one altar to Hermes, another to Aphrodite, a third to Hecate, and so on to all the gods and their avatars in the world of imagination. I would like to dedicate this room of the salon to him and to present occasional excerpts from his writing. Barbara Knott