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. We got a lot to get to. And of course, before we get to any of it, we have a ritual on

this show that allows us to, despite the heaviness of the news and the sometimes weariness

of the content that we have to discuss in this show, despite all of that, we have a ritual on

this show called a moment of gratitude. And that ritual is so important because when you're

doing the work of being in Black

Talklandia, it's heavy.

It's not the easiest of things to sit in the space where we're having this intense

dialogue on a regular basis.

So the moment of gratitude ritual is designed to allow us to curate a sense of joy, gratitude,

and appreciation because we know from lived experience and the science has confirmed for us

that when we are rooted in gratitude joy and appreciation we cannot be trapped by fear loneliness and

depression so the ritual that we use here is pretty pretty simple it's so simple in fact it goes

a little something i like this in just a minute you're going to hear music that music's 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, the most lung capacity, expanding, joyful heart, invigorating, troubled mind, cleansing, and weary, soul, 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, folks, every single day we got to do it.

And every single day it matters.

Shout out to the team who does the work of helping us to flow on this show.

Shout out to all of you in the Urban View family, in the Nubian family, and to the podcast community, because of course, now the

moments of gratitude for every single day are posted as an early morning mini podcast in the morning

the next day. So shout out to all of you in the podcast space as well. And today's conversation,

we're at the end of August. And August has been all about attitude. Our attitude towards ourselves, our attitudes towards our circumstances, our attitudes towards

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