.311 | to my father, Bob Bubb, from Patti

I didn’t get to say goodbye to my Dad when he passed away. I knew that we wouldn’t have him forever, but I thought that we would have more time. So this is my goodbye…

Thank you for teaching me that family and loved ones are more important than career and will make you infinitely happier.

Thank you for teaching me to fish, which was always a lesson in patience and love for the beauty and magic of nature and being outside.

Thank you for teaching me humility and to not just to have good values but to live them.

Thank you for always believing in me (except for that time that I flunked accounting in college).

Thank you for not yelling at me when I got caught stealing earrings from Zayles with my friends when I was 10.

Thank you for making me feel so loved, and for your big bear hugs. I’m really going to miss those.

Thank you for all the laughter. You could always crack me up in the most quirky and unpredictable ways.

Thank you for your art and sharing your creativity with your brush and with your words.

Thank you for being all- in on family holidays and happy hours and family anything.

Thank you for teaching me to love manhattans and babies and dancing.

I was so lucky to have you for a Father and the world will always be a little emptier and sadder for me without you in it, but you are right here in my heart always.