a) Orvieto, Italy. For one full semester your goal is to relax, enjoy the world around you, be inspired and make art. Things to do: meet Bruce Herman, discuss art, breathe in deeply the ancient air, visit places filled with stories and layer upon layer of humanity plastered on the walls.

b) University X. For a semester, a year, or many years, experience a new fleet of faculty. Find a professor who you identify with and rack his brain. Be in a climate you feel better suited to and with the type of people you better identify with. Learn a new way of viewing and making art.

c) Take time off. Spend a semester or a year or more...a semester or a year or more...doing...doing what? Trying to find yourself? Maybe that's what you're doing right now and your resistance towards that is what's prompting this whole blog and besides that, what does "finding yourself" mean anyway? Who really does, ultimately? Seems like a great way to just give up, slackard!

d) Stay. You think that by replacing the environment, somehow your problems will go away. But the problems stem from you not your enviroment, you'll just be lugging them with you. Like Christian and his Burdon, I need to roll down that hill and let my Burdon fall like Saul's scales at the feet of the cross.

I don't think I need to say anything more.