My friend, who is a Yoruba priestess, called from California to tell me this one important fact: The universe will close a door that you don’t have the power to close yourself. When this happens, be grateful.<\/p>\n
For these doors that have closed, I am grateful for:<\/em><\/p>\n Discovering a lover was cheating because it allowed me to walk away.<\/p>\n An email from an ex that proved for the last<\/em> time that he is truly an ASShole.<\/p>\n A friend’s rude response when I asked to take her out for her birthday lunch, thus eliminating a negative person.<\/p>\n A rude and nutball neighbor who caused me to look and find the Spirit House. <\/p>\n A former lover’s desire to travel to see an ex as we were working on our relationship leading to our breakup. <\/p>\n The end of a long-time friendship over an innocuous comment – eliminating another<\/em> negative person.<\/p>\n Getting fired by a man I have no respect for, from a business I built, and sitting back to watch him destroy not only its culture but its existence. <\/p>\n Losing all of my hair so that I could let go of the LaLa and with it the dream I clung to for too long. <\/p>\n WOW – I am digging this gratitude. Thanks Universe, you have my back. <\/em><\/p>\n To all on this list – #IDFWU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend, who is a Yoruba priestess, called from California to tell me this one important fact: The universe will close a door that you don’t have the power to close yourself. When this happens, be grateful. For these doors that have closed, I am grateful for: Discovering a lover was cheating because it allowed me to walk away. An email from an ex that proved for the last time that he is truly an… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5i4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20349,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions\/20349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}