The journal on your nightstand is not evidence against you.

It cost $32 and it is still there, face down, with a pen on top. You filled it in for a while and then stopped, and you still mean to start again.

A book of blank pages keeps a record of the mornings you did not show up. That is not kindness, it is bookkeeping.

Thirty cards, unnumbered. Nothing to fill in, nothing to keep up, and no page that will be blank tomorrow.