A ritual, not a routine

A routine is a task. It sits on the list, it gets ticked, it quietly becomes one more thing you are failing to keep up with.

A ritual asks less and gives more. There is no streak to protect, no optimal version to chase. You come to it when you need it, and it is there.

Three or four evenings a week is a lovely rhythm. But if it is once, on the night you most needed to stop, that counts too.