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. Before we get to any of these things, we also have a ritual on this show because usually

this show is very heavy in terms of the weightiness of the topics that we discuss. I mean, you can't

sit in a conversation on race, gender, culture, identity politics, and the law and not have a bit of

heaviness. But we recognize that not only are we here to gather as part of urban views so that we

can build in community

together, but we also recognize that in addition to the work that we must do to make the world a

better place, life just be life in. And so we have a ritual on this show that helps us to navigate

all of this in a way that keeps us rooted and connected to a sense of joy, gratitude, and

appreciation. And that is really important because when you're rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And that is really important because

when you're rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, you cannot also be trapped by fear,

loneliness, and depression. And so we have a ritual on this show to help us navigate all of

these emotions and the stories and the topics we have to deal with. And the ritual is called

a moment of gratitude. And it goes a little something like this.

In just a minute, you're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you

and that invitation is going to be one that says please join the rest of us as we 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 as we kick off our most important segment of every single day it is time for our moment of gratitude

I Okay. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it.

Every day it matters.

And every day, I'm just grateful that we get to be in this kitchen together because I'm

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