{"id":17172,"date":"2016-09-04T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2016-09-03T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:41:11","slug":"a-heartfelt-thank-you-for-honoring-rainbow-bridge-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/a-heartfelt-thank-you-for-honoring-rainbow-bridge-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heartfelt Thank You for Honoring Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"thank-you-jazz\"<\/a>

Mr.\u00a0Jazz – my beautiful boy who\u00a0inspired me to create Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day in honor of all those pets we have loved and lost in our lives.<\/p><\/div>\n

Another Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day<\/a> has passed and I want to give all of you a heartfelt thanks who participated, whether by sharing a blog post, leaving a comment, visiting other bloggers, joining the Facebook event page<\/a>, or participating privately from afar. I know it\u2019s a bittersweet day \u2013 for many, the memories of a lost pet are far too fresh to share, and for others, it\u2019s a time to reflect on days gone by from many, many years ago, perhaps dredging up old wounds.<\/p>\n

But for the most part, the day seemed to be welcomed with loving, open arms, giving people an opportunity to share their feelings and memories in an environment that genuinely understands the losses and truly cares. I\u2019m always brought to tears with the love I feel from everyone \u2013 so many beautiful angels that have brought so much love, joy, and companionship to people across every wake of life.<\/p>\n

When I started the day two years ago in honor of my Jazz, I did it for a very clear reason. I had come to the realization from blogging and social media that people had a real need to express their feelings about pet loss in their life. I wanted to nurture that need by creating a cohesive outlet for people to share their stories, pictures, poems, and more on a larger level.<\/p>\n

I knew there were groups dedicated to grieving and I knew there was Pet Memorial Day, a day that is held each year on the second Sunday of\u00a0September. But I wanted it to be different. Whether you believe in the Rainbow Bridge or not, it at the very least provides the much needed\u00a0symbolism to help process our loss and pay respect to those pets we so dearly miss. Symbolism and ritual is inherent to our being and that\u2019s what I wanted with Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day \u2013 a beautiful, personal, and special day devoted to honoring those memories.<\/p>\n

But what really blew me away about the day was when a friend of mine tagged me on Facebook to tell me Rainbow Bridge Day was trending. I was in shock \u2013 I\u2019ve never been the trend setter of anything in my life, let alone a venue as large as Facebook. But there it was, clear as day, Rainbow Bridge Day was trending.<\/p>\n

I scrolled through the posts \u2013 thousands and thousands of people were sharing pictures, comments, links, tribute videos, poems, likes, and more. I was speechless and broke into a mess of tears. So many precious angels, so much love. We did it Jazz, we made a difference and for that, I am humbled. I wish with all my heart the day never had to be, that our precious pets could live with us forever and ever, but we all know it can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

\"deb-and-kiz\"<\/a>

Sharing a simple moment with Kizmet. It’s those moments I cherish the most…<\/p><\/div>\n

I only wish we could channel that love for the better good of the world. There is so much strife, stress, heartache, and pain. If only we could step back and truly appreciate just how fragile and precious we all really are. Take care everyone and remember to take the time to love\u00a0what you have right in front of you each and every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day has passed and I want to give all of you a heartfelt thanks who participated, whether by sharing a blog post, leaving a comment, visiting other bloggers, joining the Facebook event page, or participating privately from afar. I know it\u2019s a bittersweet day \u2013 for many, the memories of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1094,1143,1216],"tags":[1041,951,1027],"class_list":["post-17172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-healing","category-purr-prints-of-the-heart","category-rainbow-bridge","category-sunday-selfie","tag-pet-grief","tag-purr-prints-of-the-heart","tag-rainbow-bridge-remembrance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/deb-and-kiz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172","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=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17181,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions\/17181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}