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Me on vacation 😌🇮🇹
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South Tyrol / Lake Kaltern 📸
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It’s been almost two years since I lost my dad. Ryan made this video for me right after he died but I was never able to watch it until now. I’ve spent that time mostly in blurs, trying to piece together who he was, revisiting old memories, wondering which parts happened as I remember them and which parts I’ve made up. I miss him every day. I’ll never be the same without him, and ironically, that’s the last gift he left me. Saying goodbye to him broke me. The trauma was so raw and overwhelming that it brought me to places inside myself I had spent a lifetime avoiding. Grief stripped away every distraction, every illusion, every excuse. It forced me to sit alone with myself and answer questions I could no longer outrun. You lose a lot in grief. Families fracture. Everyone ends up stranded on their own island, carrying a different version of the same loss. Friendships are tested. Some don’t survive. The ones that do become unbreakable. You lose certainty and the illusion that there will always be more time. You lose the person you were before the phone call but if you’re lucky, grief gives something back. It gave me permission to stop performing. To stop trying to become someone else and to stop begging for love and acceptance. Somewhere in the wreckage I found my way back to myself. The life I have today isn’t the life I would have chosen on the day he died. It’s deeper. Stranger. More honest and more mine. I spent most of my life trying to understand my dad. But losing him helped me finally understand myself. I wish he were still here. I wish he could meet this version of me. But at the same time, he’s everything, everywhere, all at once. He continues to shape me, challenge me, and transform me. My shattered heart is healing from within and it’s changing the trajectory of my life. It’s the most powerful beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. I promise you love doesn’t disappear. It survives death and pulls you through your deepest, darkest pain. It keeps becoming, in motion, in this lifetime, and beyond, beyond, beyond. ♥️
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🙅🏻🌟That’s a wrap on holiday 2025! It was our best holiday season ever. After a tumultuous retail year, we needed it. We’ll be back on Friday for all your new years bubbles 🫧! Thank you to all our regulars, and our gorgeous wine club community for keeping our lights on! We love you so much. But most importantly, we love each other so much no matter the challenge no matter the weather. Thank you for going out of your way to support small business: may both sides of your pillow always be cold. But you already vibrate at a higher frequency than everyone else. We all know it. We all feel it. You rock! Happy holidays! Happy new year! See you soon, beautiful! 🎄🎉
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Not pictured but Dad 👨🏻‍⚕️ made sure the other parents pulled through to help with the small business holiday season 🎈. So grateful to Amy, George and Young for showing up and packing gifts for Flask & Field 🍷🌿. They were given meal breaks I promise. Will always cherish the memory of this holiday season: our favorite one yet! Small businesses are becoming extinct so we’re savoring each hand built package with so much love and care 💕. It’s a privilege. Big box stores could NEVA. I couldn’t do it without my village and the amazing team of A+++ Flask & Field Associates 👊🏼. We are small but mighty and we get to do things our way. When we say by hand we mean every single gift, every single time🤗. We’re on our 7th year of business! WoOoOoOo 🥵! 🎉 Wishing you happy holidays and hoping to see you at the shop soon. I’m there everyday in December until Christmas Day, so come say hi!
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Bye Bye Summer ✌️
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The costume is Ryan with the love of his life 🌭🍷🍺
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Dad and me. At our tiny micro wedding at Korakia Pensione. We decided on a very intimate ceremony with just our parents and sisters. My mom had just survived breast cancer surgery, chemo, and radiation, and I wanted our families, meeting for the first time, to have meaningful time together. It was everything I hoped for and more. My parents immediately connected with Ryan’s parents and Charley, and my dad, in his heartfelt way, said Ryan could only come from the best humans. He loved Ryan with all his heart. After the ceremony, we all jumped into the pool together. It’s a memory I’ll hold onto forever, one of those moments that felt perfect in every way. I miss my dad every day, and the ache sometimes feels like it might pull me under. It’s like I’m living in a world that doesn’t quite feel like mine anymore. Grief is relentless, overwhelming, and hard to navigate, but I’m trying. The truth is, I know I’ll be heartbroken for the rest of my life, and that’s okay with me. Because that’s how big my dad was, and how much he will always mean to me. Forever grateful for that time. Forever missing him. ♥️
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🐇✨We’re hosting a celebration of our father’s incredible life Saturday, September 14 at the Rio Bravo Country Club in Bakersfield, CA. 2PM. All are welcome to join. If you love me, Susan or Young, we’d love to see you and give you a big hug! Thank you to all the friends and family who have supported us during this challenging time. You mean the world to us. We are so honored to celebrate Jay and the magic he brought to this world. We can’t wait to see you. Refreshments will be served! xo 📮RSVP to missyoo6@gmail.com 🛬For anyone coming in from out of town we have a preferred room rate at The Padre Hotel that weekend under the name Miriam Yoo.
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A couple of weeks ago I made the trip back to Boise to spend the week with friends in celebrating the life of our good friend Charlie, aka DJ Chili Chill. Although a tough weekend - it was great to see and be surrounded by friends and some whom I haven’t seen in years (decades). We shared endless laughs and stories involving Charlie and what he meant to all of us. Although I don’t see these people as often as I’d like too, they are some of the most genuine people I’ve ever met and lucky enough to call friends. We miss you Charlie, thanks for the ride and all the adventures! July 2024 Swipe ⬅️ #Boise #Idaho #Latergram
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Two weeks ago Mom called and said Dad was in the ER. A scan found Dad had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. We were gutted and in disbelief. He had been healthy and active just weeks before. Yet only 12 days later, Dad passed…on the morning of July 5, surrounded by us. It feels like a dream we can’t escape, a reality too cruel. We are shattered and still processing. Everything Dad did was with an intensity kicked up to 125% and the end was no exception. He fought with all his might. There was no pain too great for him to suffer if it meant he got more time with us. If it meant there was a chance for one more day. But his body was weak and we knew time was running out. As impossible as it is to let Dad go, we are so grateful for the honor to be by his side in his last days. He was not alone for a single second, day and night. We held his hand, we kissed his face, we rubbed his toes, we whispered love into his ears. He told us he loved us, that his life with us was everything he could ever ask for. He told us goodbye. He revealed a tenderness that we had never seen before. A stoic man of very few words, offering his whole heart. We will cherish those moments forever and, to be honest, we feel nothing but lucky. Right now, we still feel lost without him. We are raw and numb. We miss him with a pain that feels insurmountable. But Dad had a fiery spirit and wicked sense of humor. He would tell us to get up. To take care of Mom and to make sure Susan delivers her son safely in a few weeks. To keep going because that’s why he existed: to give us the best life possible. For him, we will smile and laugh again. We will celebrate his life and make him proud. If you know our Mom, please reach out to her and send her love and strength. She is inconsolable without him 😞.
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My lil baby Harvey Milkbone was attacked at his day care by another dog. He is doing ok but has had a rough few days with lots of stitches on his head and an ear that was nearly torn off. We are so thankful that he’s ok and he has me and Ryan to take care of him. He has been through more than any little pup should go through in a lifetime. He’s my teacher and my emotional support animal. But who’s supporting whom👀👀👀?!?! He lives each day in the present moment and never complains. What a gem of a pup he is! If you know him, you love him. If he’s ever bitten you, he loves you too and he’s sorry. Send him some love and strength to get better fast!
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