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. Lots to get to, lots to cover. and of course before we get to any of it, we also have a ritual on this show.

And this ritual is pretty significant. audience. Lots to get to, lots to cover. And of course, before we get to any of it, we also have a

ritual on this show. And this ritual is pretty significant because we have learned that one life

is challenging. And when life is challenging, we are in, find ourselves in situations where

trying to show up to make the world a better place gets to be a lot more difficult, right? Gets to be a

lot more difficult. And so we have a ritual on this show called The Moment of Gratitude, and it's a ritual that

allows us to really sit in a space where we are intentionally curating a set of emotions that would

allow us to tap into joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And we do this because we know that when

we are tapped into joy, gratitude,

and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. And that really

matters because if I mentioned that Black Talk Landia's hard work, it's hard work, important

and necessary work, but hard work nonetheless. So the ritual that we call a moment of gratitude

is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact, it goes a little something

like this. Hit it. In just the minute you're going to hear music. The music's going to be an

invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will collectively begin taking the slowest,

the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, the most joyful heart invigorating and 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 segment of every single day. It is time for our moment of gratitude. Thank you. I'm going to

The Every day, y'all, we got to do it.

Every day it matters.

And I am especially grateful on a day like today that we get to do this thing called Urban

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