Letters from the Quiet Half

Letters from the Quiet Half

The Art of Creative Solitude—day 3

The art of being unobserved

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Lee Hopkins
May 27, 2025
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Welcome to Day 3—The art of being unobserved.

Let’s talk about freedom. Not the loud kind. The quiet kind.

There’s a moment—maybe you’ve felt it—when you’re alone, and you do something odd or silly or tender, and there’s no one around to see it.

And that moment? That’s gold.

It’s when your real self shows up. The unpolished one. The creative one. The one who doesn’t need permission.

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