Hello, LifeLessons readers, OkcForgottenMan here again. Judy is in her second day at a writers retreat in Colima, so I’m here at her request to reblog some of her older poems. It’s a fun gig for me as I stroll back through her blog archive, wondering which to select. I’ve done this twice before, and I’m looking at her posts from 2016 this go-around.

Today, I’m picking a poem she posted in late January, 2016, called “Ritual“, simply because it describes what she is not doing this week. I hope y’all enjoy.