Mary Ellen Ryall

“…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. ”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. ”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine