What counts as a practice session

Ten minutes counts. Showing up counts. Keeping score mostly does not.

A skateboard rests in front of a worn ramp under a bridge covered in graffiti.

Between the ramp and the chessboard I started keeping a tally of practice sessions, and almost immediately started skipping days that felt too short to count.

So a rule, written down here so I keep it: a session is any time I show up and do the thing on purpose, even for ten minutes. The tally is gone. The dates in this log are enough of a record.

Nearby in the log