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Posted by e. (New York, NY, United States) on 9 May 2008 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

We went to the famous Ise Shrine, which is devoted to the worship of Amaterasu ōmikami. It is possibly the holiest and most important Shinto shrine. Every twenty years, they rebuild the shrine in a different location on their temple grounds because of their beliefs in death and rebirth.

On the grounds, they had different stores and lots of chicken and fish wandering around.

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Photo taken in Ise, Japan on December 23, 2007.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. - Shawshank Redemption

We walk through our lives so focused on our daily tasks and griefs. It's important to realize that there is always hope, because without fail, there will always be a touch of color - in a hazy shade of winter.