Holiday Homage Part Six: THE Sam

This summer whilst doing "Sweeney", I met Sam Pettit.

I was focused on bringing Anthony to life, so throughout the show and backstage I was serious, quiet, reflective. This guy brought life to the backstage. He is JOY. There was a performance in which he could not "attend the tale" and the show was different, lacking somehow.

He is a high school senior and has the lovable qualities of youth: exuberance, unparalleled energy, a need to learn, and...

He is pleasantly himself.

He has a real sense of who he is and that is a rarity in someone so young. He dares to be different, but in an organic way, not to rebel and for that I respect him. He is more aware than some I know twice his age.

We have kept in touch throughout the months. When I am pensive or dwelling in the darkness, he is a light of hilarity.

I do not know where Sam's course will lead him, but I am profoundly grateful that it lead him to me this summer.

He is such a raw talent with the ability to do a kick ass impression of the Joker, Johnny Depp (Jack Sparrow), etc. and he is the embodiment of beautiful. From within to his artistic dark brownish-black hair, Sam dances forth with a grin, a joke, a hug. It is refreshing to view someone so handsome on the outside be a person of such depth on the inside.

Sam, this Holiday season I am taking note of the ones that make it make sense. You are one of those POPPET. (He likes when I say that.) I wish there were more in the world like you. What a wonderful world that would be indeed. :-)

I love you, man. (Yes, I wrote "man"... I did it. I owned it too.)

Thank you for supporting me, making me laugh, and being my newfound friend of 2008.

Dustin

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The Leprechaun Loving Lush

Tonight I got snockered with some bombastic leprechauns, dabbled in the cuisine of Acadia, conversed with some drunk oddities, called and text people in quite a state of lowered inhibitions/let's talk about life and giggle, and discussed trivial matters (Is "Sweeney Todd" actually a good film, why do I like "Twilight", etc.) as if life depended on how I articulated my stance in these matters. What an odd, fun, new, out-of-the-comfort zone night for me. Gloriously uncomfortable and disgusting decadent. YAY. Every day I seem to be doing something I have never done before: from the tiny to the grand. It is an experiment and I am loving and loathing it, and all the intoxicating in-betweens. (Yes, not-so-clever pun intended.) I hope that everyone had a wonderful St. Patty's day! (oh my, that is like Sandi Patty, but not at all...) Love, The DABalicious Leprechaun Loving Lush

Much Needed Silence

The past few days I have liked the darkness, the silence of my room. I have not come out much and have watched "Sleepless in Seattle" over and over and over and over. I started wondering why I want to be alone (I am not depressed at all) and started doing the roommate math. I have lived with 41 different people in my life. I have lived in 21 different living environments not including all the different times I moved around with my family as a kid. I have hit a wall where I just want ME time and a lot of it, no talking, no sharing, just alone time. In this much needed silence I find that I am a much simpler person than I once was, that I really love the quiet, and that it is time to live alone soon. I have done the roomie thing more than anyone I know and met some wonderful people, but I am overloaded with that experience. So, back to "Sleepless in Seattle" and my much needed silence. Dustin

And With This, Farewell

This blog has been a dear friend to me. I am not good at farewells, but truly this is anything but. I look at it like this - I love the phoenix, the symbolism of it all, the power of rebirth. Hence why I named my blog/musing screen after one. :-) So, I am leaving this particular blog to start another one, one that fits me NOW, the one that I can share in a new way. So this feels right. Thanks to those who have read my musings throughout the years. I hope you follow me to my new musing home entitled THE TWELVE THAT IS DUSTIN BAYLAN. Yes, I am changing the name, the story of that is on the new blog for you to read. Here is the link: http://dustinbaylan.wordpress.com/ Much love, much hope and joy again, much potential... Winks and smiles of the Cat that is Cheshire, Dustin Baylan

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