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

down down down every day on this show for those of you who are new we get into some really

heavy topics it is not the easiest of things to listen to on a regular basis because the news

is news and the world is

world and then on top of that we all just have individual lives to lead so we have a ritual

called a moment of gratitude and we use this ritual to make sure that we are proactively choosing

a set of emotions that are designed to allow us to be as optimistically positioned as possible

those emotions are joy gratitude and appreciation and we select those emotions because when we are rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot be trapped by fear, by loneliness, or depression. And when you are trying to make the world a better place, baby, ain't nobody got time to be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. So, the ritual is very simple. So simple, in fact, it goes a little something like the... Hit it!

In just a minute, you're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us, because when we hear it, we're going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled mind cleansing, a 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. Everyday folks, we got to do it. And every day it matters. Shout out to the team. Shout out to the Urban View family. That's home base. There's so much goodness coming this way, Urban View. One day I will be able to talk about it. But I just know that I increasingly get excited about what's happening here at Urban View. You'll know soon'll know soon but shout out to the nubians I got to see one of y'all in them streets yesterday in New York City she was like hey miss Lorene I was like hey she's like I'm a newbie it shout out to you says shout out to the Sancofa connectors to the YouTube community the podcast community we have been growing by leaps and bounds in all of those spaces. And none of that can happen without you. Today, I want to shift to a conversation about the quality of our lives, about the quality of the work that we are doing while we are here. We are here for just but a minute, right? We're not here for a long time at all. We're here for a good quality time. We're not here for a long time. But we are experiencing a world where we have to remind ourselves that what we do with the time that we're here really does matter. Now, I'm going to play this clip for you. This is Tony Morrison. I've actually played this in a moment of gratitude, I think maybe two or three years ago. So it might feel a little familiar.

If you know the clip, you'll recognize it.

But there's a particularly different element of this that I want to pull out today.

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