"She's okay and wants us to know it" A lovely rainbow appeared over the ferry terminal at Duke Point as my wife, her

[Floyd R. Turbo]

sister, and bil boarded the ferry for their trip to the mainland from Vancouver Island. My wife’s mother died last week at the age of 99. While in a nazi work camp, a fortune teller told her she would live to 100; she nearly made it.

Her story began in Minsk and ended in Canada. She survived Stalin and Hitler.

What occurred between her beginning and ending is unimaginable to most. She survived and thrived.

My wife texted me about the rainbow. I’m not a very spiritual person, but I like to think her assessment is accurate.

[Irish_Dem]

1. If you were Irish, you would be 100% sure she sent you the rainbow.

She is OK.
Remarkable people do remarkable things.

[TomSlick]

3. The Scots would agree.

It's probably because much is shared in Irish and Scottish culture.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Do the Scots have leprechauns too?

They are connected to the rainbows which are good luck.

Do you have a rainbow story Tom?

My deceased aunt sent a rainbow to our family shortly after her death.
She was a remarkable person. Sent to the convent at age 10 as was the Irish custom.
Became a nun in a teaching order, and was the best person you could imagine.
She loved her nieces and nephews so much.
Very modern, smart, many college degrees, reached high rank in the order, but never talked about it.

We had a family outdoor reunion that looked like it was going to be rained out shortly after she died.
Very bad stormy weather.

Suddenly an hour before we were to meet, the storm stopped, the sky became sunny and beautiful.
The most magnificent rainbow you can imagine appeared.

My Irish family is a smart, cynical bunch. Cops, doctors, nurses, etc.
But every single one of us knew our aunt had sent the rainbow to us.
And we knew she was OK and still looking out for us.

[TomSlick]

6. I'm red/green colorblind. I can barely see rainbows and then only the yellow.

Yes, Scottish lore includes "wee folk."

[Irish_Dem]

8. Oh no, rainbows are so beautiful.

I guess you will have to see them with your heart!

My Irish grandmother used to talk to me about the leprechauns, the wee folk, and how to interact
with them when I came across them.

I was not sure if her tutorials were all that sound, given I was an American kid.
But I did keep an eye out for the wee folks, and was prepared.

I didn't realize it at the time of course, I was quite young, but I learned about
having an imagination, and things existing that I could not see,
and sentimentality and historical lore.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. I'm fifty percent Irish!

[Irish_Dem]

26. Wow that is a lot of Celtic DNA!

Explains your offbeat sense of humor.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. 😁☘️

[Irish_Dem]

28. Where in Ireland are your people from?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. County Cork. I traced the clan back to 1825.

[Irish_Dem]

31. That is so cool.

Yes I know where my family is from since I have second cousins there now.
My grandparents were born and raised in a small town in Co Mayo.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Nice.

[artemisia1]

2. The fortune teller may have been correct as some cultures count your first birthday as the day you were born. So

99 may have been 100 to this fortune teller.

Good story and I am glad to hear that she long outlived the Nazi terror.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Interesting!

[irisblue]

4. Amazing woman. May her memory be a blessing to us

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Thank you.

[Niagara]

7. My condolences on the passing on your M-I-L, Floyd

How amazing the strength that she had to survive the unimaginable.


Rest in Paradise, Floyd R. Turbo's M-I-L

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Thank you.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. ""

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. Thank you.

[TrollBuster9090]

10. That's absolutely what it meant. :)

Same thing happend with my mother. We put her in the family cemetery in Stanwood Washington, and on the drive home, we all saw a rainbow landing in Stanwood. TYG

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Cool!

[niyad]

11. I am so very sorry for your loss. She sounds an absolutely amazing woman.

Thank you for sharing a bit of her with us, and for sharing the rainbow.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Thank you.

[calimary]

12. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it WAS a message from your mother-in-law.

I'd like to think so, anyway. It's quite comforting.

Hugs to you both.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Thank you.

[electric_blue68]

13. 🕯

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Thank you.

[electric_blue68]

25. YW

[NNadir]

14. Wow. To have lived that life is amazing. Your family has much to be thankful for in a time of grief.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. It was! We are!

[Jilly_in_VA]

30. It almost certainly was a message

When my grandma died, she was a few weeks past her 96th birthday, which she had celebrated with my daughter, who was born 4 days after her 93rd birthday and with whom she shared a very close bond. There was a brief rain shower and a rainbow on the day they celebrated their birthdays, and there was another on the day she died. When I told my daughter that her great-grandma had died, she looked outside at the sky and said, "Grandma is in the rainbow NOW." Children know, and we can learn from them.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. ☺️

[Wild blueberry]

33. Beautiful message

May her memory be a blessing.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😊