{"id":12717,"date":"2014-06-28T04:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2014-06-27T18:58:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:58:25","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-harley-parting-is-such-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/saying-goodbye-to-harley-parting-is-such-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to Harley – Parting is Such Sorrow…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harley was a ray of sunshine in our lives and her beautiful coat and sweet disposition always reminded me of a carefree field of sunflowers…<\/p><\/div>\n

It is with extreme pain and despair that I write to inform you our beloved Harley crossed to the Bridge this past Tuesday. It was completely unexpected and as a result I am truly having trouble communicating with any sense of peace or comfort but I felt that you all needed to know, as I know you loved her for the sweetheart she was. My grief is just too raw and too profound right now for words \u2013 the road Dan and I have been traveling of late has been extremely difficult \u2013 I feel we have each aged a hundred years in the span of mere months and losing our darling baby in the midst of it all is a hard cross to bear and I am incapable of rationale thinking and eloquence at the moment.<\/p>\n

I will just say that we did what was best for her. She had undergone a grave epileptic seizure and I honestly can\u2019t write about it \u2013 I tried, but I just can\u2019t. Not now anyhow. The words won\u2019t come out and those that do are a meaningless garble of detached and confused sentences and I just don\u2019t have it in me to open my feelings on this one at the moment. All I can do is take comfort in the fact that she lived in a loving and happy home and never once did she go a day without knowing how much we cared about her. She was an absolutely darling girl who didn’t have a mean bone in her body and she always had a friendly meow, or two, or three, for anyone who cared to converse with her.<\/p>\n

I know they say to look for the happy moments in life and I firmly believe in that mindset, but since she was one of those happy moments, it will be difficult to move on without her. I am grateful for her sake that she is at peace and that Dan and I were with her in her final moments. We got to tell her how much we loved her and we got to say goodbye. She heard our loving voices and she was not alone. It wasn’t how I wanted it and it isn’t fair, but surely we all know that life is not always easy, fair, or just.<\/p>\n

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Our Harley looks so peaceful here… Dan took this photo of her just a few days ago and we had no idea what was in store for us all…<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t understand why she had to be taken from us and I probably never will, but I never understood why my sweet golden retriever puppy, Bailey, who was only two years old died of cancer or why my dog Meadow got hit by a car. These things happen every single day, all across the world, and if I must find comfort, it is that Harley will now be with Bailey and Meadow as well as with Mr. Jazz and many other fur friends who will gladly open up their paws and hearts to her in a happy and glorious welcome.<\/p>\n

Time will march on and the pain will lesson. It won’t happen quickly but I am grateful for Dan, my kitties, and my friends and family who are such an important part of my life that will help me heal. Harley will forever remain in my heart and as someone who has loved animals her whole life, I know only too well that they are with us for borrowed time and that we have to love them for however long or short the amount of time we are blessed to have with them is. R.I.P. my darling girl\u2026 the couch will never be the same without you on it next to me\u2026 Until we meet again, I love you…<\/p>\n

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This picture from 2010 is one of my favorites because it is so Harley – she loved the couch so much and here she is surrounded by Zoey and Mia – they all look so happy and content…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with extreme pain and despair that I write to inform you our beloved Harley crossed to the Bridge this past Tuesday. It was completely unexpected and as a result I am truly having trouble communicating with any sense of peace or comfort but I felt that you all needed to know, as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1265,851,86,850,37,849],"class_list":["post-12717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cats","tag-greiving","tag-harley","tag-loss","tag-rainbow-bridge","tag-sorrow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/harley-goodbye.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717","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=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12732,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions\/12732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}