{"id":10591,"date":"2013-09-28T05:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2013-09-28T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T12:30:35","slug":"accepting-age-with-grace-and-thankfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/accepting-age-with-grace-and-thankfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Cat Lady Accepts Age with Grace and Thankfulness…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This will do nicely… just get it in a pretty copper color so that I can coordinate it with all my leopard interior stuff!<\/p><\/div>\n

While I would not have complained if someone were to have given me a BMW Z4 Roadster for my birthday this past Thursday, the older you get, the more you realize that it\u2019s not about the physical gifts, but the love, relationships, and friendships around you. I say this because this birthday was a milestone for me \u2013 I don\u2019t mean in terms of a particular age, but it was the first one in a long, long time that I had celebrated without Mr. Jazz in my life and it really put things into perspective.<\/p>\n

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I gotta admit, I was doing okay until I posted this picture… then it really hit me that Jazz is no longer with me… It is a month to the day today – R.I.P. my darling boy…<\/p><\/div>\n

I still miss him terribly and I know that is normal. I also know that the grieving process never quite goes away, but I am at that stage now where the sadness is being replaced with a sense of peace and calm because I know he is still with me. As a matter of fact, I think he may be channeling himself through Zee, as if to let me know he has never really left me at all.<\/p>\n

When I went to bed Wednesday night, I was dreaming of him and the dreams were so vivid that I could see every fur on his body and I physically felt his presence. He used to drape his soft and warm body over mine until he eventually moved and settled somewhere next to me where I would find him the next morning when I woke up. That was the sensation I felt in my dream.<\/p>\n

I now realize that it was Zee and not Mr. Jazz as I had imagined. When I woke up on my birthday, I found Zee next me with his front\u00a0left paw extended, touching my arm as I was cradling his comforting body. \u00a0His intuitiveness that I needed this from him was the greatest gift I possibly could have gotten and I just know it was Mr. Jazz’s way of letting me know he was celebrating the day with me.<\/p>\n

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I love Zee so much – just like Mr. Jazz, he is such a wise and kind cat…<\/p><\/div>\n

All it all it was a very simple and quiet day and that was exactly what I wanted and needed \u2013 I had the day off from work and I was surrounded by Dan and my kitties and despite wanting to ignore the fact I am a year older, I was inundated with all kinds of wonderful birthday wishes from my friends though social channels and you all made me feel like a million bucks!<\/p>\n

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The best part of life is sharing time with my family, friends, and beloved kitties. It seems that Harley and Kizmet agree with me!<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes and I hope you all have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I would not have complained if someone were to have given me a BMW Z4 Roadster for my birthday this past Thursday, the older you get, the more you realize that it\u2019s not about the physical gifts, but the love, relationships, and friendships around you. I say this because this birthday was a milestone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[98,1265,33,680,30],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-healing","tag-birthday","tag-cats","tag-deb-barnes","tag-mr-jazz","tag-zee-and-zoey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Deb-Barnes-of-Zee-and-Zoey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}