Happy New Year and so on

thirty-three Goddess of Mercy

Inari shrine

 
shrine of our district

Happy new year !

I hope this year be a happy and healthy one.

This morning I went to our temple for praying our happiness this year.

About twenty people attended to the meeting.

 On my way home, I went to Inari shrines. 

In the afternoon, I went to a shrine of our district too.

I met a few people both of the shrine.

It was a fine day and not so cold, so I felt comfortable.

 

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Sister Kazuko Watanabe died on December 30 last year.

She lived to 89 years old.

She was my former teacher about half a century ago.

At that time she was young and very beautiful and the beauty seemed to come from her inside as well as her out side.

Needless to say, she was intellectual and severe but was very gentle and had much sense of humor.

Above all she had abundant humane feeling adding to divine of religion personality too.

I was lucky to be a student of her.

Lately her books became best sellers and media took up about the book and her life.

We can't live forever, but the news made me sad.

Her way of life was so nice.

She will watch many graduates and her students from heaven.