Rainbows for my beloved son
by Debbie Fluke
I still can't believe I came across this website. I collect rainbows. I have since I was about 12 years old. Over the years I've amassed an incredible collection. I have rainbow candles, clocks, clothes, light switch covers, coffee cups, mouse pads, light bulbs, sheets, towels, shower curtains, salt & pepper shakers, banks flags, windchimes, jackets, ashtrays, lighters, the list goes on and on. Anyhow when I was growing up my family had a dog. He was a collie and his name was Tippi. He lived to be 15 years old. We finally had to have him put to sleep because he kept having strokes. We had him buried in a beautiful pet cemetary in the foothills about 35 miles from where we lived. (There is a story that one summer there was a horrible fire in the hills right by the cemetary. The story goes that the fire burned a complete circle all the way around the cemetary. It burned all the trees that surround the cemetary. But it only burned the sides of the trees that faced away from the cemetary. It didn't burn a single blade of grass on the cemetary grounds.) Anyway my mom and I were talking one day about what happened to animals when they died. We were wondering if there was such a thing as a heaven for animals and were pets and their owners reunited again someday. And we decided that there was a place in heaven for pets and that someday they would be reunited with their owners. I don't remember how I stumbled across your website but I'm sure I was probably looking for something about rainbows and bridges on the internet. Anyhow I can't tell you how much it meant to me when I came across the website and then read the poem. I mean when you consider that I collect rainbows, and I've believed for years that pets to go to heaven, and the fact that Cajun Spice was my child. (I've never had kids of my own and I raised Cajun on a baby bottle.) He was my world and I can't imagine it being possible to love a child any more than I love him. So this website has a lot of meaning to me and I will be forever grateful that I found your website. As a matter of fact: I had Cajun Spice cremated and his ashes are in a small box. One of the guys I work with made a small plaque for the top of the box. It has his name and when he was born and when he died. And it says "Most Beloved Son." And I have written up my "final" instructions. I have had it put in writing that when I die that Cajun Spices ashes will go in my coffin and he will be buried with me.
Comments would be appreciated by the author, Debbie Fluk
 
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