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 have a ritual on this show. we move in decency and in order

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and this ritual audience. We have a ritual on the show. We move in decency and in order on the Lary Daniel

Favors show. And this ritual that we have on this order that we have says that we, before we get

into the heavy stuff, before we get into the serious conversation, we have a ritual that we call

the moment of gratitude. And this ritual is important because doing the work of Black Talklandia

conversations is not easy. I recognize that, which is why I really do be trying to give y'all a Friday

that's light and air, but it ain't going to happen necessarily today. Although we will, we will have

some elevating conversation with Ebony Janice, as we always do. But this ritual is important

because it allows us to begin our time together with an intentional

focusing on the emotions of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And that's really important because

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

loneliness, and depression. And that matters a lot because it's hard to do the work of making

the world better if you're lonely, depressed afraid so the ritual is pretty simple it is so

simple in fact it goes a little something unlike a deal in just a minute you're

gonna hear music and when you hear that music it's gonna be an invitation to you

to join the rest of us because when we hear it we are gonna collectively begin

taking the slowest deepest most lung most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled mind

cleansing, and we are so 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. Thank you. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it.

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