take one half-spoon at sundown. mark the day on the small sheet. do not interrupt the course; do not double the dose after a failure. when the mistake recurs, note it but do not restart the count — the course is in days, not in errors. the cure is not in stopping the mistake; it is in changing the small thing that comes just before it, the one the body has not been watching.
ingredients
- one half-spoon at sundown
- the day, marked plainly
- the moment before the mistake, observed
- permission for the slip itself
- a phrase one says only to oneself
the bottle empties on the fortieth day. do not refill. the body will know whether to repeat the course or let it lapse.
see the ritual, the palimpsest, the errata; for the briefer cousin, the single-dose regret.