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Mini Soup Conventions and Zip-Lining

Blog Posted:10/26/2011 4:42:00 PM

Many of you know I recently had the chance to meet Sara and Doris for a mini soup-convention. Well I've now had the opportunity to meet Deb Guzzi (and Dane Ann again) when I traveled to New Hampshire to kick another item off the bucket list -- zip-lining through the towering White Mountains wearing two coats and two sweaters.

Deb G. met my old friend Barbara at an airport in New Hampshire and we had another mini-convention. (Bio photo with Dane Ann taken a day earlier.) More photos in my photo album - link above.

I am working with a Soup member on an idea for a new contest to be co-judged. In the meantime, I hope to go skydiving possibly as early as next week.

So what is on YOUR bucket list?

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Sara
Kendrick

Date: 10/29/2011 6:30:00 PM

Oh! It would be nice to do this while the weather was cool..Sara

Sara
Kendrick

Date: 10/29/2011 6:29:00 PM

Looks like fun and work at the same time..Might even be a little painful..Bucket list..To go back to Ana Ruby Falls at Helen Ga..Maybe with the electric cart this time since my health has failed since the last time that I was there..Sara

Dane Ann
Smith-Johnsen

Date: 10/28/2011 5:29:00 PM

The photos are great! Zip lining looks like fun! You go girl! Big Smiles. Love, Your Friend, Dane Ann

Carol Sunshine
Brown

Date: 10/28/2011 8:04:00 AM

My dear friend, I am so happy to see you so happy. What a beautiful day it is for me. Now just one thing to say YOU GO GIRL ROCK THIS WORLD. Love you, Carol

Cory
Long

Date: 10/28/2011 3:10:00 AM

glad you had fun in New Hampshire..

Nancy
Jones

Date: 10/27/2011 4:51:00 PM

ooohh, how lovely you two!!! My bucket list? hmmm.. kickin' it mostly, namaste~N

Carolyn
Devonshire

Date: 10/27/2011 4:21:00 PM

Sure would like to join you on that trip to Macchu Piccu, Deb. We'll talk about it again. Love, Carolyn

Debbie
Guzzi

Date: 10/27/2011 3:36:00 PM

Macchu Piccu!!!!

Phyllis
Babcock

Date: 10/27/2011 1:55:00 PM

I have so many things on list that my bucket would be full. I would love to sky dive but with a bad back not possible. So nice you were able to meet with each other. Thank you for sharing your special time with us.

Carrie
Richards

Date: 10/27/2011 11:43:00 AM

What wonderful pictures to share, Carolyn!! Loved seeing you with fellow poets....you are beautiful and talented! Oh....and brave !! I get nervous on a ferris wheel with my kids!! (and as John said, I fear my bucket might have a hole in it too!! ) (Reminds me of the song we sing around a campfire!..."There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza"

Carolyn
Devonshire

Date: 10/27/2011 10:26:00 AM

What interesting responses! I have already been parasailing and would like to "adopt a Greek" as iolanda joked. Handsome men. Catie, deepening your spirituality is certainly a worthy bucket list item. Natalie, let's go sky diving together! Cyndi, I have no fear of heights but would prefer a cruise on a fishing boat to a pleasure boat cruise. Cool goal to see the other countries! John, what size plug should I send you for your bucket so that it retains your beer? LOL I should add seeing England to my bucket list. Love, Carolyn

Jack
Horne

Date: 10/27/2011 9:08:00 AM

Lovely pics - glad you're having fun meeting up with some Souper friends!! I can't think of anything for my bucket list - maybe just to think of something...

Cyndi
Macmillan

Date: 10/26/2011 8:01:00 PM

PS--- Nice to see two classy ladies enjoying each other's company. Sister-friends are gifts.

Cyndi
Macmillan

Date: 10/26/2011 7:57:00 PM

I wanted to go whale watching. That was on my top 10. And I have. Though I am TERRIFIED of heights, I do want to go hot air ballooning. I would love to see Wales and Scotland. And I'm not a cruiseship type girl, but I've heard some CARGO ships actually have passenger capability. This appeals to me. The idea of just taking in some deck time, looking at the ocean and reading, writing, thinking, no crowds. I DID go to a Jesuit retreat for a day of silence. I would like a week of that. A true sabitical... I would love to visit Provence or Tuscany... Now, as for sky diving? AWK! I'd have to double bag my fanny in Depends. No way, no how... but it's really cool that you're going for it. I WOULD try parasailing (I think that is what it is called). And I would love to learn to FLY a plane (so expensive, they offer lessons at our small, local airport). Number one on my bucket list is to see my girl graduate from either college or university in a field she loves. I know, corny! But I'm old mama!

John
Freeman

Date: 10/26/2011 6:19:00 PM

I'm not ready for a bucket list yet Carolyn. Still wet behind the ears. My bucket has a hole in it, won't hold no beer. If boat rides were only a quarter a ride I would have to run up and down the bank yellin, "An't that cheap." smile.Just joking lady. You go girl! Agape, Moses

Natalie
The Rogue Rhymer

Date: 10/26/2011 6:15:00 PM

That is awesome Carolyn! Don't forget you need to go skydiving w/ me someday. I can't talk anyone it to it around here so you are my only hope :). Love, Natalie

Vince
Suzadail Jr.

Date: 10/26/2011 5:57:00 PM

I've flown in a number of different things, but if they asked me to leave while still in the air, I would have had to change my shorts. Skydiving! Go for it! I'll stay here on the ground. Vince

Tracy
Edwards

Date: 10/26/2011 5:30:00 PM

Aww wow you're soooooooo brave Carolyn I cant even go 2 steps up on a ladder without feeling sick lol...such lovely photos looks like you had an absolute ball xxxx

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Three Blind Men and a Horse	Quatrain
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Hopeful Trio	Tanka	nature
Cautious Walker	Free verse	adventure,allegory
Seeing Things	Light Verse	funnygrandmother,
Cowboys Cry Too	Acrostic	angst,cowboy-western,imag
Letting Go	Rhyme	lost lovelove,
Mine Shadow	Free verse	sea,
Captain Breckenridge	Free verse	imagination,
The Future Is Now	Monoku	hope,life,nature
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My Dog, Benbow	Verse	animalsdog,dog,time,
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Petty	Light Verse	funnyme,me,
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Rain Drop	Personification	nature,rain,
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Doing Time In Kimo	Kimo	funny,
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A Deadly Pack	Rhyme	animal,
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The One That Got Away	Narrative	childhood,family,nostalgi
Courage Vs Conflict	Dramatic Monologue	conflict,courage,culture,
Ironside	Light Verse	adventure,betrayal,for hi
Let It Rain	Rhyme	emotions,feelings,freedom
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An Eternity of Thought	Free verse	hope,
Henry David Thoreau	Clerihew	humorous,
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Tears From My Ancestors	Rubaiyat	sorrow,perspective,
Love In the Silence of the Soul	Narrative	death,love,sorrow,
This Is Jack	Light Verse	funny,humorous,
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Star Child	Light Verse	beauty,universe,
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