Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So we have a ritual on this show before I can get into the heavy news. We have a ritual on this show that we incorporate every single day because the news be news and that can be heavy when you are doing the work of Black Talklandia. And the ritual is called a moment of gratitude. Now, this ritual is very important because we know that, as I said, Black Talklandia work is difficult because we don't just hear the news and conversation.

We think about our role in making it better. And so we want to make sure that we're approaching

that effort with as much joy, gratitude, and appreciation as we possibly can because when we

are rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness,

and depression. And so this ritual, which again, called a moment of gratitude, is very, very simple. So simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this. Hit it! In just a minute. You're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us, because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled mind

cleansing, and we are so uplifting the most amazingly juicy breath that you've ever taken

with a couple million people at once as we kick off our most important segment of every single day.

It is time for our moment of gratitude. Every day, folks, we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View out to the urban view family

the new being family podcast and youtube community i am so grateful for you guys and how we are able

to create this space of flowing together we have been talking a lot about cooperatives we've been

talking a lot about community we've been talking a lot about how we imagine our ability to pour into other people.

And that's a really important thing because we are in a moment right now where I think more than

at any point in my lived experience, certainly, I don't know about you, but in my lived experience,

now more than ever, it has become crystal clear to me as to how much we need community, right?

And we've been on this since October, right?

We've talked about really the whole year in some form or fashion, but really since October

intently talking about the nature of community, community care.

What does it mean to have a space of community care that is allowing for self-care and vice versa?

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