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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/09/2026

I recently finished reading: Quiet Champions A Way Forward for Mentors in Turbulent Times by Ian Chisholm 📚, which I highly recommend. My intent is to write a review. For now, this quote feels like a good way to summa... commonplace.rumon.ca/2026/09/27/i-r…

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/09/2026

Autumn, early morning, late flowers

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 01/09/2026

Morning run views. Kitty Islet municipal park in the foreground, Trial Island (provincial) Ecological Reserve in the midground, Olympic Mountain Range (international) in the background, all floating on the Salish Sea.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/08/2026

Last time I was there, three summers ago. ❤️

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/08/2026

Another instalment in my occasional series of found road wisdom … #seenonmyrun #commute

Black and white image of a travel trailer bearing the inscription “Escape the Ordinary”

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/08/2026

First batch of cowboy candy out of our farmhouse test kitchen*. Working with sugar rush peach peppers. Couldn’t be happier with the results (including in respect of the breakfast sandwich that was their first application). 🤌 *It’s our only kitchen.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/08/2026

Bringing a couple friends to another friend’s birthday dinner …

A couple of Penhill watermelon dinner plate dahlias in a galvanized bucket, sitting on a bench

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 22/08/2026

Morning walk at PKOLS with a dear friend and my dog … at the point at which we were comparing notes on why we had each on separate and overlapping timelines, let our relationships with this lapse. So begin, again.

The morning sun peaking through the trunks of a stand of mixed coniferous and deciduous trees.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 21/08/2026

Early airport drop means a sunrise run at ȽÁU,WELNEW (Tlay-will-nook), the high point of land that enabled the W̱SÁNEĆ people to survive the great flood. Here, the stories tell the ancestors were able to tie their canoe to an arbutus tree with a giant cedar rope, until the floodwaters subsided.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 21/08/2026

“Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.” Bonusdaughter 2 is heading back to school in a couple weeks, starting year 2 with a new major. [1/3]

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 20/08/2026

Lovely little eveningmaker … haven’t seen an owl in the yard in a while (though evidence - feathers, meal carcasses, etc. - is always appearing) … and this one appears to be a young-of-the-year. Always a treat, always grateful.

Two coniferous trees with a juvenile Barred Owl in a branch midway up one of them.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 19/08/2026

Basil harvest and pesto production night, happily casting my mind ahead to school year lunches and various of our fave recipes we’ll prep together in the coming months …

A big pile of basil being “looked” over by a bouquet of pink-hued Penhill Watermelon dahlias.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 17/08/2026

😍 “not bad”?? Looks amaze! I so wanted to leave our walls kinda raw when we moved in and started our restor’n (very early days in first pic), but got outvoted. See also, can we start a Lighting Mutual Admiration Society (ref. second pic, a few weeks later, c.2022)? Heck, a general support Signal?!

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 16/08/2026

“Under a wide Pemberton sky, with the first hint of fall in the air, we’re heading to Za Ropa Ranch for one last taste of summer. A long table, an open fire and a Spanish-inspired feast …” Friends are hosting the sort of gathering I hope we cultivate more of… www.thebreakhaus.com/experiences

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 16/08/2026

I’m typically the first (human) up in our household. On many of those mornings, though, Eddy will have already been stirring, hoping for his people for get moving. It’s people, plural, though.

A black and white speckled dog’s face, partially obscured by the railings of a stairwell.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 07/08/2026

Dinner date at the farm. 💕

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 03/08/2026

There’s a much longer story that I haven’t been detailing here about a return to health and fitness (post-50), but for now indulge me as I share how grateful I feel to be able to run again, in particular to be able to do so with my partner (well, for 1/2 the run!), and in a place like this, my home.

A trail meandering uphill through an urban woodland, with a dry creek bed photo left, a tree fort built in the creek bed. Location: Mystic Vale, University of Victoria, Saanich, BC.

A trail through a grassy field, leading into bushes and deciduous trees. Location: Uplands Park, Oak Bay, BC.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/07/2026

“[W]hen we're together, no one's wondering when the next cell phone's going to come out or when’s the next big sale at fill in the blank retailer. We’re so present because we are inside of primary satisfactions.”*

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 22/07/2026

As I continue my exploration of AT Proto / Bluesky linked apps, today it’s Flashes … with ironic content given this is a repost - including adapted description - of my first post on Instagram, this week, in nearly a year…

A red tent pitched in the foreground of an image with a jagged mountain in the background.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 17/06/2026

Next read, started today on the way into work … been really looking forward to this since hearing about it … yes, for the core focus on businesses, but perhaps even more for applications to public institutions too. @ericries.bsky.social

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 17/06/2026

Evening, yesterday, in the low-angle light and ocean breezes in the back garden. 💚

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 17/04/2026

Always more than good - and too rare - to start a day at work within a place of the work, reconnecting to the mission and meaning. 📍Goldstream Park, W̱SÁNEĆ Territory

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 13/04/2026

Some weekend highlights.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 03/04/2026

GOOD Friday. Nature has third space for connection is an ever deepening theme of personal experience and inquiry. This morning: Hill repeats with the lads. 📍PKOLS

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 02/04/2026

Replicating here a gratitude post shared with an org-spanning group for such things, a little but impactful highlight of my worklife: Grateful to witness this little moment of magic this morning, and to inhabit the rower’s flow, vicariously, for a moment.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 28/03/2026

Picked this up at the recommendation of the good folks at the amazing Fable Book Parkour in Revelstoke while visiting last week. Breezy, compelling, haunting read.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 24/03/2026

New office this week = new, longer commute. Made longer still in order to avoid boring standard roadways and make use of Victoria’s brilliant network of painted / protected bike lanes and rails-to-trails routes, including this beautiful final mile over our urban Gorge waterway.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/03/2026

Timeline cleanse. (I’ve wanted to cohabitate with a stellate mag for as long as I can remember. Rehoming this one from a colleague 2 years ago was and remains such a gift. She feels like a portent of positivity to me.) Happy spring.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 20/03/2026

Back home. Another great start to another Friday, with/in PKOLS for some hill reps with the lads and a solo swim. In company with Nature FTW, again.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 18/03/2026

No notes. 📍: The Village Idiot, Revelstoke, B.C.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 28/01/2026

Love this, wanted to share, from today's Demo Day, by way of design lead Jane. cc @gordonr.ca

Image of a slide displaying the text "A prototype is a series of questions waiting to be answered."

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 05/09/2025

Trying / testing out the (re)new(ed) Digg … who else is in there? AI maniac CEOs beta.digg.com/funny/jLtlKEq

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 30/08/2025

Bonus when said friends arrive bearing beautiful and resonant gifts. 🙏 “The national flower of Ukraine has grown into a symbol of sovereignty and courage—the sunflower. I see it as a lovely symbol of victory over tyranny.” ~ @victorygardenoftomorrow 🌻

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 30/08/2025

Friends who stop by to pick flower and food friends to take to and nourish friends returning home from hospital is the kind of community we want to be part of. ❤️ (Cf. Timely relevance of “I know a guy who grows food and flowers” exchange w/ @ceej.online & @spencerkeys.bsky.social minutes ago. 🤓)

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 13/08/2025

“These days, with the global markets in disarray and the future of the places we ride in peril, we should probably spend less time thinking about the specifics of optimizing our rides or whether we have the perfect bike to ride a specific trail, and just go see what we can do with what we have.”

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 11/08/2025

There are places with which we can build relationships upon only a single visit. People with whom the ties that bind still thrive despite the better - though less good for the absences - part of a lifetime apart. 📍Za Ropa Ranch, Pemberton Meadows, Líl̓wat Nation territory

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 06/08/2025

Resonant read from Justine Hunter in @theglobeandmail.com (where you can actually read it for free! 🙏): www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic....

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 29/07/2025

… I feel disappointed, unsettled and reflective about the state of thinking, creativity and discourse, along multiple contours. So here are some photos taken this morning of flowers my wife and I have cultivated and cared for.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 28/07/2025

There are few things better than being nearby withnessing people you love in the places, pursuits and experiences that fill them up. Jennie, this morning, prepping a few flowers in our backyard urban farm to share with the community before heading off to work at the actual farm.

A woman, face obscured by one of the flowers, reaches through a row of pink-hued dahlias to cut a few samples for sale. Warm morning light illuminates the scene.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 25/07/2025

Reflections from this morning’s garden walk … Of course the Penhill Watermelon in the first image stops you in your tracks on the morning garden walk, but it’s fun to juxtapose the far less brash strawflowers (last image) that are now emerging one row over … [1/2]