{"id":8664,"date":"2019-12-09T21:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2019-12-09T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:31:06","slug":"even-in-the-darkest-of-times-there-can-be-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/even-in-the-darkest-of-times-there-can-be-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in the darkest of times, there can be harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonyhousewma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harmony House<\/a> in Chicopee on the fundraising committee. I decided to get involved with this organization, as I was there when my parents and sister passed. The thought of anyone being alone at the end ones\u2019 life is devastating to me. So, I decided to volunteer for an organization that shared the same passion as myself.<\/p>\n<p>The Harmony House is a real home where residents who don\u2019t have adequate caregiver support spend their last days in comfort and are surrounded by loving, compassionate people.<\/p>\n<p>The Harmony House is not a hospice, but offers its residents care coordination with the hospice team. The compassionate team of volunteers provide 24\u2010hour assistance, companionship, personal care, socialization, and meals.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering for the Harmony House has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. I make sure I do everything I can to help raise money to support the Harmony House, as no resident that stays with us is ever charged a penny. The Harmony House is 100% fundraiser funded.<\/p>\n<p>I know in my heart that what I do for the fundraising committee makes a huge impact and I\u2019m about to embark on helping a corporate sponsorship so we can make an even bigger impact in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>The founder, Ruth Willemain, has been a hospice volunteer for many, many years. She visits her patients, which always become friends, as often as she can. She insists on being by their side when they are about to pass no matter what time of day or night. She\u2019s an amazing person who has followed her dream of making Harmony House a reality. I am both humbled and honored by working with her and God bless her for enriching my life.<\/p>\n<p>-Melody J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteer at the Harmony House in Chicopee on the fundraising committee. I decided to get involved with this organization, as I was there when my parents and sister passed. The thought of anyone being alone at the end ones\u2019 life is devastating to me. So, I decided to volunteer for an organization that shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[910,788,909],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-associate-giving","tag-give-back","tag-volunteering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HH-photo-Melody-Jacobson-1.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-2fK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}