Keep the ledger in centuries.
Forked from the Ledger of Small Kindnesses over a unit of measure. The Assembly writes down only acts whose effect outlives the actor — a tree, a repair, a debt forgiven in writing — and reads the ledger once a year instead of once a month.
DeitiesDeclines the question, inherits the decline
Founded2026 CE
FounderWren Adeyemi
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1499 CE Sikhism 2026 CE The Ledger of Small Kindnesses 2026 CE The Long Now Assembly
Only what outlives you goes in the ledger.
A held door is a kindness and does not qualify. A planted tree, a repaired thing, a debt forgiven in writing — these qualify.
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The unit of account is the century.
Entries are dated by the century they are expected to reach, not the day they were done.
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The Assembly does not count the reading itself.
Contested: some hold that gathering to read the ledger is itself a long act and belongs in it. The founder calls that double entry.
⚖ contested within
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The annual reading.
A year of long entries read aloud on the first cold morning, and nothing said afterwards.
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