Category: People
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アルプス山岳郷 | インタビュー#5
アルプス山岳郷エリアは、自然の魅力がたっぷりです。第５回目の地域づくり取り組みインタビューではその自然や山の魅力を守ってくれている人たちについてご紹介しています。 ZEHIお読みください。 https://alps-sangakukyo.amebaownd.com/posts/11557830
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アルプス山岳郷 | インタビュー #3
乗鞍高原 「GiFT NORiKURA Gelato&Cafe」 ～アルプスエリアの古くて新しい食体験 その２～ 2019年夏、乗鞍観光センター内にオープンしたGiFT NORiKURA Gelato&Cafe。地元や近隣地域の生産者から仕入れる、この地域ならではの素材をふんだんにつかったジェラートや、地元で焙煎された豆でいれるコーヒー、地元の果物をつかったジャムトーストなどが好評で、特に休日の店頭は大賑わいのようです。— Read on alps-sangakukyo.amebaownd.com/posts/10747524
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Four Qualities of Empathy
Recently I have been thinking about how drastically different it is to be around people who have a natural or learned ability to show empathy vs. people who cannot or will not show empathy.This little clip from Berné Brown pretty much nails it. There are Four Qualities of Empathy:– Perspective-taking The ability to take someone…
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アルプス山岳郷 | インタビュー #2
～アルプスエリアの古くて新しい食体験 その１～ 2020年9月16日に、さわんど温泉にて新名物「さわん丼」が誕生しました。 温泉地・さわんどの魅力を詰め込み、「温泉」を活用したまちづくりを考える中で生み出された新メニューということなのですが、「なぜ丼なのか？」「まちづくりと温泉と新メニューにはどんな関係が？」など、— Read on alps-sangakukyo.amebaownd.com/posts/10426109
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Remembering Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson was an extraordinary man with a love for creativity and an amazing gift for communication.If you don’t know who he is please feel free to get to know him in the most viewed TED video ever titled “Do schools kill creativity?“. You can read more about his life here.
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Norikura Hops
About 3 years ago my friend Gaku set out to see if he could grow hops in Norikura Kogen and has slowly and patiently learned the ropes. This year’s harvest along with the harvest from Nagawa by @ryosuke800 will be made into a yummy limited edition brew by @matsumoto.brewery this fall. I think Gaku represents…
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The ingredient we start with
I think this idea can be applied to many business models other than Intel’s silicon wafer. Human beings have a unique, God-given ability to add/create value through what we create in the world. I found this quote by the former Intel chairman Andy Bryant last year when I toured the Intel Museum in Santa Clara…
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When and where did you have your first cup of coffee?
I think my first cup of coffee was at a Young Life camp in high school. A few years ago Hannah and I started a little project to see if we could make something that would serve our community and help another in the process. We finally decided to try roasting coffee because we enjoy…
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Stay home with Norikura Kogen #7
We dedicate this episode of Stay Home with Norikura to our dear friend and mother of 5 Heather Hammond who shared a photo of egg coffee on Instagram in 2017 (see link in comments) and Hannah the curious foodie she is just had to figure out her own way of making it. We also just…
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Norikura MTB Adventure
We thought the boys were supposed to go to school to see their teachers today for their weekly check-in but it turned out that we didn’t read the “very important” email from the school telling us that we are NOT TO BRING THE KIDS TO SCHOOL and that from Monday, only parents are allowed to…
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A new chapter begins for Ezekiel – Junior High
Yesterday was a special day for us as a family – we celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in Ezekiel’s life. A few weeks ago we were not sure if it would be possible due to the continued spread of the novel coronavirus but our school which I think is the smallest in Matsumoto…
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Congratulations Ezekiel
15 years ago when I first moved to Norikura Kogen I taught English 1 day a week at the local elementary school for a year. I loved teaching there and I remember thinking to myself “when I have kids I want to send then to a school like this someday”. And so six years ago…
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A new Mayor for Matsumoto – Yoshinao Gaun
Congratulations to our newly elected Mayor of Matsumoto – Mr. Yoshinao Gaun. Mr. Gaun and his team worked hard for 4 years to build a “bottom-up” campaign that puts the needs and future wellbeing of the citizens of Matsumoto (including Norikura Kogen & the rest of the Azumi area) in on the conversation about where we…
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Kirara Kids Family Snowboard Camp
This week we got to participate in our first Kirara Kids Snowboard camp up at TANGRAM Resort in Northern Nagano. The camp is produced by some good friends of ours Hayato & Michiyo and this year was the 18th consecutive year running. I got to be one of the camp coaches and Hannah was asked…
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The Infinite Game
If you wake up every day with a finite outcome as your only goal, I think it’s fair to say that your life will be not only predictable but also decidedly difficult. Why is will it be difficult? It will be difficult because most things in life just don’t work that way. Most things in…
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The one-hit-wonder
The one-hit wonder is an inevitable byproduct of pop charts. The term is most prevalent in the music industry but can apply to other things or people. Have you heard Chumbawamba? Or maybe I should ask if you have heard of Tubthumping because that was their one-hit-wonder? Creating one-hit wonders probably keeps some people up…
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