Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

No, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

We also have a ritual on this show, and this ritual is really important because, again, as I said,

Black Talklandia is not the easiest of spaces to sit in day after day.

And this is a ritual

that is a lot, it's designed to have us focus emotionally on emotions that serve us. And those

emotions tend to be emotions of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. Now, we've selected those emotions

as our points of focus or as our goal emotions, if you will, during this exercise, because we know that when we are rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. And that really, really does matter. So, the ritual is called a moment of gratitude. And it is so simple. I know I say ritual and people like, ooh, it's going to be some oogaboo. Itbug. It ain't no oog-boog, it ain't no u-woo, but even if it were.

That would be good, too. But it's a very simple ritual. It goes a little something like this. In just a minute, y'all go hear music. The music's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us as we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart

invigorate, and troubled mind cleansing, and weary soul uplifting.

We are going to take 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.

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