Everywhere you look you see people who've chosen a medium. You see painters. You see musicians. Coders. Actors. Barristas. Joey Arias said, " 'Drag queen' is such a ridiculous term for a human being. I am an artist. My medium is drag."

You look around and say, "Paint per se doesn't excite me. Music? Doesn't excite me. Not per se." In music one can be a louche hipster, a sincere cowboy, a troubador of contemporary epics, or a retro Nintendo futurist. Have all these got anything in common? Their medium, that's all.

I'd like to give up media and work toward destinations—go here, go there. Simply do this or that.

Bot to do things really well requires craft, and to refine a craft one must, generally speaking, choose a medium. We work at our pursuits, year after year, always looking for ways in which our chosen media enable us to reach the destination.

So be it resolved: choose a medium, refine a craft.