Paul wrote some of his best letters from prison. A locked door didn’t lock up his purpose.

Confinement did not stop the work. He was locked up, with no travel, no audience and no control over his situation, and that is the period the most enduring material comes from. Restriction changes what your work can be. It does not automatically end it, which is worth remembering when circumstances you did not choose close off the version of your life you had planned.

If you are stuck, injured, grounded, broke or waiting, ask what can still be done from here. Write, learn, help, make. Something is usually available at the scale of the room you are in.