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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not

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Speaker 1: feeling great today. I woke up and was feeling extraordinarily

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Speaker 1: low energy, you know, when you're just the spirit was heavy.

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Speaker 1: My mood is heavy, and you know, often times when

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling like this, you know, I try and do

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of things to kind of pull myself

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Speaker 1: out of the mood that I'm in, you know, and

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Speaker 1: try and do things to lift up my energy. And

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Speaker 1: today I decided not to. I decided just to sit

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Speaker 1: in it. And what I realize in the sitting is

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Speaker 1: that sometimes the pushing through is just too much. It's

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Speaker 1: too heavy to push, it's too heavy to lift. And

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Speaker 1: so I decide to sit and meditate and you know,

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Speaker 1: light and incense and candle and just be with my

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Speaker 1: feelings and be inside of my body which feels really

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Speaker 1: heavy and tired. And you know, sometimes I try and

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Speaker 1: unpack it, well, what is it? You know what's causing it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, blah blah, so then you can avoid

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Speaker 1: it and you know, and you can make sense of it, folks.

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Speaker 1: What's causing it is everything, Like, that's the reality. There

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Speaker 1: isn't one thing that is causing my heaviness. It is everything.

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Speaker 1: It is waking up to, you know, reports that continue

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Speaker 1: to uphold white supremacy, genocide and condone it right. Reports.

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Speaker 1: My wonderful producer Andrew texts me in the morning, you know,

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Speaker 1: with breaking news and different things, and he's just like,

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Speaker 1: you know, twelve thousand, six hundred children are dead in Gaza,

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Speaker 1: twelve thousand, six hundred, and he says, but the ap

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Speaker 1: the Associated press use the term minors. He's like, because

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Speaker 1: we refuse to call them children. We refuse to say

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Speaker 1: that we're okay with murdering, mutilating, blowing bodies apart of children,

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Speaker 1: because you know, Netanyahu has the right to blow up babies, right,

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Speaker 1: That's what the West has decided, That's what the United

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Speaker 1: States has decided, That's what Biden has decided. And on

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Speaker 1: those days when you can't look away, right when you can't,

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Speaker 1: there's not a place to look, there's not a place

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Speaker 1: to scroll, there's not a television to turn on, and

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Speaker 1: you're just like I thought we all knew right from wrong.

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Speaker 1: I thought we had gotten to a place in our

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Speaker 1: civilization and in our understanding of humanity right from wrong,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't right because this country, the Western world,

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Speaker 1: the great colonizers of the planet, will decide whose children matter,

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Speaker 1: whose lives are worth saving, right And outside of that,

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Speaker 1: we just ingest and consume mass death and trauma like

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Speaker 1: it's fucking normal. And so some days I feel heavier

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Speaker 1: than others. Some days my spirit actually doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: get out of bed, and I am tired of trying

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Speaker 1: to look today for the brighter side. What is the

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Speaker 1: brighter side of genocide? What does that look like? Biden

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Speaker 1: posts on Instagram. You know, I'm doing everything that I

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Speaker 1: can and will do to bring the hostages home and

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Speaker 1: to you know, create a two state solution. You know,

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Speaker 1: believe me, believe you? Why why should we believe you?

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Speaker 1: Nan Yahoo and his genocidal cabinet have said over and

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Speaker 1: over again they don't want a two state solution. They

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Speaker 1: want to kill every single Palestinian. They want to bomb

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Speaker 1: every single safe zone. They want to starve them, beat them,

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Speaker 1: mutilate them. They don't want two states, so they want extermination.

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Speaker 1: Biden says, Oh, I'm going to give you forty five

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Speaker 1: days to write me a report. You know how many

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Speaker 1: kids they're going to kill in forty five days. So

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Speaker 1: I feel heavy today. You know, we are just being

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Speaker 1: exposed to so much death, to so much dehumanization on

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Speaker 1: a regular basis that we are looking for any little

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Speaker 1: bit of escape. So if it's the super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: then they use that as cover to bomb the fuck

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Speaker 1: out of Rafa, an area that was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: designated as a safe zone. So folks, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, but it just feels harder

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Speaker 1: and harder. And you have one side that is just

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Speaker 1: filled with dictator, authoritarian, fascist wannabes who want to sink

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Speaker 1: their teeth into what is left of our democracy and

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Speaker 1: drain it for everything that it has left. And then

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Speaker 1: you have another side that says that it's for democracy

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Speaker 1: and continues to send billions of dollars of weaponry to

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Speaker 1: murder children. So today, I don't fucking know. You know,

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Speaker 1: this isn't about Biden's age, This isn't about like I

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Speaker 1: just I don't know what kind of world will exist

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Speaker 1: a year from now, two years from now, three ten

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Speaker 1: years from now. It just feels today like the darkness

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Speaker 1: has just taken hold. And I know that there will

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Speaker 1: be other days that present light, and other days where

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Speaker 1: there are silver linings to find, joy to be made,

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Speaker 1: art to consume, music to twirl to. I know that.

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Speaker 1: But on the days when the darkness takes hold, it's heavy.

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Speaker 1: And so that's where I am. I am reading, I

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Speaker 1: am listening to Andre three thousand's new Blue Sun album

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Speaker 1: on repeat. I am praying, and I'm just sitting in

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Speaker 1: it because today is a particularly hard day. I'm working

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Speaker 1: with a nonprofit organization with their executive leadership team, and

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Speaker 1: I'm reading. You know, they're amusing the book The Four

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Speaker 1: Pivots Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, written by Sean doctor Shawn

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Speaker 1: Ginwright Gainwright or gen Wright. I can't ever figure it out,

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Speaker 1: but you know, in it, he talks a lot about

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Speaker 1: what I've been thinking on, which is how to reimagine

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Speaker 1: what resistance looks like because I no longer have have

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Speaker 1: the energy for the consistent rage. I no longer have

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Speaker 1: the energy for the hate. You know, I want my

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Speaker 1: resistance to look like softness. I want my resistance to

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Speaker 1: look like creativity, to look like creation, right and not

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Speaker 1: deprivation right. And I believe that hopelessness is one of

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Speaker 1: the best tools and weapons of the right because if

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Speaker 1: you can get a people to believe that there is

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Speaker 1: no way out, that this is the best that there

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Speaker 1: is going to be, and that every day is going

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Speaker 1: to be more and more unstable, unhinged than the day before,

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Speaker 1: then you win because at a certain point, people are

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Speaker 1: not interested in pushing back because what are they pushing

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Speaker 1: back towards. We're at a tipping point in this country

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Speaker 1: and you know that, you feel it, I know it,

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Speaker 1: I feel it. And this election is going to be

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Speaker 1: the deciding factor for America. Does it continue with the

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Speaker 1: American democracy project? Or does it fall like every empire

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Speaker 1: has to dictators authoritarians. And you know, at some point

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Speaker 1: hundreds of years from now, when archaeologists are going through

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Speaker 1: the rubbles of you know, America pre twenty first century,

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Speaker 1: maybe they'll find the answers that we refuse to see.

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Speaker 1: But this is what it feels like to be inside

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Speaker 1: of a crumbling empire. It feels unstable, uncertain, dark, and

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Speaker 1: Biden and the Biden administration is not doing themselves any

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Speaker 1: favors by continuing to justify acts of depravity that are unjustifiable,

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Speaker 1: And I'm no longer willing to argue with people over

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Speaker 1: what is right and what is wrong. If you have

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Speaker 1: the power and the ability to blacklist and blackball people

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Speaker 1: turn off water and power and stop resources from entering

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Speaker 1: into AID camps, right, how are you still saying that

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Speaker 1: you are the one when you hold all the power

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Speaker 1: in the cards. Do I think that what happened on

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Speaker 1: October seventh was justifiable? Absolutely not. Do I think that

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Speaker 1: the reactions to that are justifiable, Absolutely fucking not. And

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Speaker 1: So to pretend for people to get on social media

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Speaker 1: tells me how far humanity has fallen. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't ever know if we've fucking risen, because these

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Speaker 1: murdered right in order to extract more resources to build

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Speaker 1: their greedy, blood soaked, fucking empires, And I'm looking to

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Speaker 1: those people to see the humanity of others. Give me

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Speaker 1: a break, Give me a fucking break. They're so you know,

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Speaker 1: absolutely devoid of reflection that they burn books, they wipe

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Speaker 1: hide what they have done. Do you know the more

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Speaker 1: that I learn about what my ancestors went through in

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Speaker 1: hands of their fucking, depraved, disgusting, heartless, moral less like

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Speaker 1: slave captors, and then I look at the products of

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Speaker 1: those that sit now on the benches, that sit now

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Speaker 1: in the courts, in the police departments, that have backed

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Speaker 1: in written Project twenty twenty five to restore the White

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Speaker 1: Way of being. We repeat, we repeat, we recycle, we repeat,

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Speaker 1: we repeat, we recycle because we refuse to teach, we

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Speaker 1: refuse to learn, we refuse to reflect, use to question.

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Speaker 1: So today I'm resting, and I encourage all of you

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Speaker 1: it needs to lay down, to take a nap, to

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Speaker 1: tend to your heart, to tend to your spirit, because

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Speaker 1: some days that's literally all we can do. I want

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Speaker 1: my resistance to look different, to feel different, because I

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Speaker 1: unable to imagine what freedom looks like, what it could

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Speaker 1: possibly feel like. Sean Ginwright asked what it could taste

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Speaker 1: like and smell like, because we're so busy reacting to

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Speaker 1: want the time and the space to dream up something better, different, softer,

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Speaker 1: So some days we play flutes, listen to jazz, burn

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Speaker 1: Let that be the nourishment and the healing that your

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Speaker 1: spirit is begging for, because that's what the tired, the achiness,

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Speaker 1: the heaviness is is your body saying lay down, rest

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Speaker 1: Because you know who didn't have the opportunity to lay

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Speaker 1: down and rest enslaved Africans. You know who doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the ability to lay down and rest Those running for

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Speaker 1: their lives right now, so we can send them love, light, energy,

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Speaker 1: the highest of vibrations. But us all burning out at

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Speaker 1: the same time. Who does that serve? It doesn't serve anyone.

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Speaker 1: So if you are like me today this week, give

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Speaker 1: yourself grace, allow yourself to rest and recharge. That is

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Speaker 1: it for me today. Dear friends, on woke f as

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Speaker 1: always power to the people and to all the people. Power.

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Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fun