USD Magazine Fall 2012

Show me the bunny

H O P P I N G D O W N

T R A I L S

U N T R A V E L E D

T here’s a moment that feels like forever. It’s the instant when anything is possible and all your dreams seem not just attainable, but inevitable. Then life intervenes, as it tends to. Plans change and happily ever after starts to look like a childish reverie. So you get practical and do what needs to be done. But if you’re smart, if you’re paying attention, if you take charge of your own life and keep more or less on the path you’ve set, you may look around one day and see that against all odds, you’ve wound up on exactly the right road to get you where you didn’t know you wanted to go. For the four alums in the pages that follow, there’s a common thread: The best way to find fulfillment in work is to make it feel like play. Being famous isn’t the point for Jim Parsons, who’s found his way back to one of his first true loves. Claudia Dominguez delved deep inside herself, and then took a leap of faith. Kevin Petti has created a niche that allows him to share his love for interconnection. Tara Shiroff ’s career has taken a dramatic twist that she never saw coming. They all reached for the carrot, and once they caught it, they held on for dear life.

[ Photorgraphy by Tim Mantoani, Celeste Canino and Mark Mosrie ]

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