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From grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl ear,

to fathers on dimly lit street corners instructing young soldiers to always keep their eyes open.

You be queen. You were fired. You were passed through centuries on the hands of your daughters.

They called you wisdom. Proverbs. On the backs of diamond-eyed school children who grew into hymnals

recited by Amethysts holding urban philosophers

who recited neighborhood commandments out of the windows of restored El Camino Cheriots

to keep the warmth in their blood. Be wide. Be smart. Be black opal, brown quartz, bloodstone,

and prayer be every form of gem.

See, King told Scribe, Scribe told son, son told wife, wife told her daughter and daughter told

the ancestors and the ancestors told me that you would come to give wisdom to thousands. They said you would come, dropping gems.

Hey, welcome back to another episode of the dropping gems podcast. I'm Debbie Brown. This is your

soft place to land where we have conscious conversations and unpack tools for our healing journeys. All right, this episode, I wanted to do

a little bit of Q&A. Last time I did that, I got some amazing questions. So I hit up my Instagram

this week and I did the same thing again in my stories. I asked everyone who listens to the show

if they had any questions about

the spiritual journey, life, meditation, all the things. And I got some really, really, really

amazing questions. I feel like the floodgates opened and there was just so much depth that

came pouring through. So I am excited

to answer a lot of these. At post the time of recording of this episode, I am getting ready to head

up to Rhinebeck to the Omega Institute campus where for the next week I will be hosting a retreat along with

Queen of Fuha called Women Who Heal. And I'm really excited to connect with everyone that is

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