We hope for peace and understanding for all of you in this tough time. She talks so much about just wanting to set you up for success after shes gone. (Laughter) Like, I couldn't watch myself be born, but I can watch myself die. Compassion cannot exist without cruelty. Im very proud of her. Julie underwent eye surgery at what is now the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. She was also not able to drive. Her older sister, Lyna Yip, who arrived in the United States with two of her uncles ahead of her parents, sister and brother, also had surgery to remove cataracts but emerged with better vision. Before we had children, Julie took six or nine months off and wrote a manuscript, which seemed like a massive undertaking at the time. Well, look, I dont want to come off the wrong way, but its really hard for me. It made me think about how life carries on no matter what. It wasnt a joyous occasion we all knew it was going to be her last birthday. ISABELLE YIP WILLIAMS: Mommy, I'm going to stick a note on you. But she also had blunter, yet inspiring, things to say, about loss and the unfairness of life. Julie Yip-Williams, whose candid blog about having Stage IV colon cancer also described a life of struggles that began with being born blind in Vietnam and her ethnic Chinese familys escape in a rickety fishing boat, died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn. I think she was already dead when I read that post. Yip-Williams recorded the various chemo cocktails doctors prescribed her, the temptation to simply give in and stop all treatment, the forced jollity and fierceness of fellow cancer sufferers, and, most movingly, her attempts to come to terms with the fact that her daughters would grow up without her and her husband might one day find new love. (LogOut/ I remember sitting there with her, all in a state of shock of course, and looking at the blogs that were out there. Julie was a corporate lawyer and also an author. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a . What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living. Julie writes a lot about being really pissed off. But I realized that these things are the low-hanging fruit. Its not just the vision issue. We were lucky because our boat did not sink as so many others did. Live a life worth living. Finally, she is survived by her beloved cousins Caroline Yip Hendley of Westport, Connecticut and Nancy Yip Ramos of Los Angeles, whom she considered sisters, and by Chipper, her much-adored bichon frise. Its the most painful experience of my life by far. Memorial. Book - 2019 "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. We are here to feel the complex range of emotions that come with being human. In July 2013 she was diagnosed with Stage Four colon cancer. Like, I know how they're going to react to stuff, so I want to be in control. Probably 150 to 200 pages. Know more about Candid Blog writers journey in life and Messages she left for her children! We will always remember her and will hold her in our hearts for eternity. She really felt that much of what was out there was just dishonest misleading even and just not particularly helpful. So sad. Yip-Williams died of metastatic colon cancer at age 42 in March 2018, five years after the diagnosis. Theres so love and sadness twisting in the wind. KAGAN: Part of that reverence for that unwinding of the miracle was an intense focus on the process of dying, on what was happening to her body as her death got closer. Join us on Monday, February 11 th at Random House for a special Big Ideas Night celebrating the late Julie Yip-Williams and her searing memoir, THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Are you protective of the story in some way? Drake, Usher, and Burna Boy to Headline J. Coles Dreamville Festival. I think she was thrilled to be leaving something behind, because she thought it would be useful for people out there who were suffering. Julie Yip married fellow lawyer Joshua Williams. Know that your mother once felt as you feel and that I am there hugging you and urging you on. Be more compassionate people because of it; empathize with those who suffer in their own ways., And, she wrote, Rejoice in life and all of its beauty because of it; live with special zest and zeal for me., Julie Yip-Williams, Writer of Candid Blog on Cancer, Dies at 42, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/julie-yip-williams-dies-writer-of-candid-blog-on-cancer.html. Julie Yip-Williams, 1976-2018. Like youre going to end up somewhere tropical.Yeah. I call it the evolution of the soul. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older child, she sailed to Hong Kong with her family and hundreds of other refugees in search of a more peaceful life, eventually settling down in the US where her life improved drastically. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace. Tanya and Bianca. I have solved all the logistical problems resulting from my death that I can think of I am hiring a very reasonably priced cook for you and Daddy; I have left a list of instructions about who your dentist is and when your school tuition needs to be paid and when to renew the violin rental contract and the identity of the piano tuner. It sounds like the blogs that were out there. Towards the end of her life, Julie wanted to document everything - the emotional experience, trips to the hospital for treatment and conversations like this. Live! Most would say that cancer, the terminal kind, is truncating and destroying their lives. We want to take a moment now to note the death this past Monday of Julie Yip-Wlliams. In a new film the pop star co-wrote with director Trey Edward Shults. You dont have any control over that it just comes from the government. She had already. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon gave her partial sight. Im really proud of her. They landed in Hong Kong as refugees, and moved to California by the end of 1979. Julie Yip-Williams dies at 42. I cried in my lonely anger. Kagan was there and remembers both the heartbreak of watching the family grieve and the weight of the responsibility she felt in telling Yip-Williams's story. [9], Julie Yip married fellow lawyer Joshua Williams. It was definitely there from the very beginning of her cancer journey. Her husband, Joshua Williams has said the cause of her death was metastatic colon cancer. And as a companion to the memoir, Julie Yip-Williams invited producer Eleanor Kagan to help her record the final months of her life. Her story also attracted the attention of " CBS Sunday. Just wish it could have been a whole lot longer. YIP-WILLIAMS: She chose the wallpaper, purple and blue butterflies. One of her central goals was to cut through the dishonesty, obfuscation and sugar-coating that seem to surround cancer and to allow people a window into the genuine experience of dealing with cancer at such a young age, in the hopes that others might draw comfort and wisdom from her words. And then I will hug you and tell you how you did a great job and how very proud I am of you. She died four-and-a-half years later, leaving behind her husband, Josh, and two small daughters, 8-year-old Isabelle and 6-year-old Mia. by julielyyip in Uncategorized. In the coming days, I will make videos about all the ins and outs of the apartment, so that everyone knows where the air filters are and what kind of dog food Chipper eats. Her editor said in a telephone interview, What makes Julies story distinctive is that she approached cancer consciously. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. Donations can be made online athttps://fundraise.ccalliance.org/blue-star-tributes/julieyipwilliamsor mailed to: Colorectal Cancer Alliance, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 1066, Washington, DC 20005. This is another one of lifes paradoxes that you will learn to navigate. The series chronicles her process of preparing for her death and revisiting the events of her extraordinary life, through hours of intensely personal and revealing conversations. I read each and every one of her blog posts since day one. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance in Julies name. There are one or two pictures that are different now, and if she walked into the apartment I sometimes think about this Im sure shed look around. It was expensive, but I splurged 'cause I said, you know what? You would be foolish to expect fairness, at least when it comes to matters of life and death, matters outside the scope of the law, matters that cannot be engineered or manipulated by human effort, matters that are distinctly the domain of God or luck or fate or some other unknowable, incomprehensible force. One year ago today, Julie Yip-Williams died of colon cancer at 42, leaving behind her husband Josh and two young daughters. It was then that she began to write what would become a posthumously published memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle. You will understand that nothing lasts forever, not pain, or joy. All of these peoples loving energy surrounds you so that you will not feel so alone. We were lucky because our boat did not sink as so many others did, she wrote. She graduated from Williams College in 1997 and from Harvard Law School in 2002. I love you both forever and ever - Mommy. She thought this experience and this book might have something to teach people about facing hard truths and would be an exhortation to the living.. A woman with cancer faces her end CBS Sunday Morning 1.22M subscribers 2M views 4 years ago The words "borrowed time" have defined Julie Yip-Williams' life since she was born. It has an 11% five-year survival rate. It seems to have a life and will of its own that I cannot control through the sheer force of my mind. For a child, there is nothing worse than being different, in that negative, pitiful way. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. As your mother, I wish I could protect you from the pain. But at age 37 she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. We were lucky because we were not forced to engage in cannibalism, as some other refugees were.. Julie's family went back to their home in Tam Ky. 8 months after, which was on the 6 th of January 1976, the author named D. L. Thanh opened her eyes to this world. And now I feel like I've come to accept the decline. I was denied opportunities, too; I was always the scorekeeper and never played in the games during PE. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much morea powerful exhortation to the living."An exquisitely moving portrait of the daily . But I do know that there is incredible value in pain and suffering, if you allow yourself to experience it, to cry, to feel sorrow and grief, to hurt. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. And I was like, what's it going to feel like? "How It Feels to Publish Your Wife's Memoir About Dying". At her death she was forty-two, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle. She was a strong woman throughout her life. Her fathers name is Diep The Phu, later known as Peter and her mothers name is Lam Que Anh, later known as Ann. Before her diagnosis in 2013, Yip-Williams had done more than her share of living. I think everyones a little bit afraid, but she wasnt even long before she was sick. Meet Julie. We all loved Julie so very much and we miss her terribly, but we also believe that she is in a better place. Julie, her husband Josh and daughters, prior to being diagnosed Julie also describes, several times, her imaginary hatred for her husband Josh's next wife. Born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams was a writer, mother, wife and lawyer who grew up in California and graduated from Harvard Law School. All rights reserved. Oh, how I long to have perfect vision, even after all these years without. [2], Yip earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts, and a J.D. The reason for her blindness was Congenital cataracts (lens opacity present at birth). But in the meantime, live, my darling babies. And yet, that single unfortunate physical condition changed me for the better. Even long after you have chosen to stop playing, I will still come to you in those extraordinary and ordinary moments in life when you live with a complete passion and commitment. Watching her, I always wondered what it would be like when it actually happened. When she was 2 months old, her father, Diep The Phu, who later became known as Peter, and her mother, the former Lam Que Anh, who is called Ann, took her to an herbalist in the coastal city of Da Nang with instructions from her grandmother: Kill her with one of his concoctions. They were so young when she died. We were lucky because we were not forced to engage in cannibalism, as some other refugees were.. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. And here is a link to Richard Sandomir's tribute to Julie in the New York Times. I think I might have to tell Adam Scott that hes a really big influence to me, as a caterer., Toni Collette Is a Mob Boss Dressed Like a Librarian. We only met her in person once at your wedding, but have always admired her strength, bravery, and wisdom, along with the endless list of her other amazing qualities. After spending several months in a refugee camp, Julie with her parents and brother flew to San Francisco in November 1979. The worth of a persons life lies not in the number of years lived; rather it rests on how well that person has absorbed the lessons of that life, how well that person has come to understand and distill the multiple, messy aspects of the human experience. Source: The New York Times (Julie Yip Williams). Below please find the obituary I wrote to honor Julie, which includes links to her New York Times obituary and her recent appearance on CBSs Sunday Morning program. Julie died peacefully, surrounded by her family and close friends, in a warm, sun-splashed room of the apartment she so meticulously planned and designed. Passage: Julie Yip-Williams. And true to. She thought this experience and this book might have something to teach people about facing hard truths, and would be an exhortation to the living.. I love you both forever and ever, to infinity, through space and time. She was blind from congenital cataracts, and a grandmother pressured her parents to find an herbalist to end the baby's life. She met Mark [Warren, her editor] after she had made a comment on an article that Mark had written about Stephanie Lee, who was a stage-four colorectal cancer sufferer down in Mississippi. In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters. I want to say the latter stages of 2017. Her blog, with additional material written by Ms. Yip-Williams, is being turned into a memoir by Random House, which expects to publish it later this year or early next year. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. Even her death certificate lists her as an attorney and author. At age 37, Julie Yip-Williams was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. She's got thick glasses on, comfortable sweat clothes, no shoes. Born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams was a writer, mother, wife and lawyer who grew up in California and graduated from Harvard Law School. We will always remember her and will hold her in our hearts for eternity. Her blog, which provides an exquisitely detailed portrait of her battle with cancer and an account of her life during the nearly five-year period that followed her diagnosis, touched thousands of lives and inspired people from all corners of the globe. Her husband Joshua Williams is also a lawyer. Yip-Williams died last year. She graduated from Williams College in 1997 and from Harvard Law School in 2002. Don't be afraid, but just feel. I know your girls will be forever proud of her, and will feel her presence wherever they are. My sweet babies, I do not have the answer to the question of why, at least not now and not in this life. Copyright 2019 NPR. Hope cannot exist without despair. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older . I promise. Julie Ly Yip-Williams. KAGAN: And then there are the gifts that are harder to pin down. Julie was many thingsa brilliant scholar, a talented attorney, a fantastic writer, a lover of life who traveled to places as far-flung as the South Pole, Egypt, Jordan, Bangladesh, the Galapagos Islands, Paris, China and Vietnam, among many others, a lover of fine food, a fantastic cook who owned probably fifty cookbooks and could produce (good) restaurant-quality food, a voracious reader and yet also an avid and unapologetic binge television-watcherbut even more fundamentally, she was a loyal and loving person who put her family first. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. I, on the other hand, was completely terrified of it. That fact of your mother dying will weave into the fabric of your lives like a glaring stain on an otherwise pristine tableau. Her story also attracted the attention of CBS Sunday Morning, which televised a profile of her this month. It is irrepressible, its very existence inextricably tied to our very spirit, its flame, no matter how weak, not extinguishable.. Interred on 23 Mar 2018. Not BFFs Anymore! Jordyn Woods Shows Her Subtle Support to Selena Gomez amid the Singers Online Feud with Kylie and Hailey! Passage: Julie Yip-Williams 63,844 views Mar 25, 2018 834 Dislike Share Save CBS Sunday Morning 1.07M subscribers The young mother recently profiled by Tracy Smith on "Sunday Morning," who. It was also a meditation on love and family as well as a message of openness to her young daughters, Mia and Isabelle, about her illness. She herself did not know of this event of her childhood until the age of 28. As your mother, I wish I could protect you from that pain. My mother didnt think it worthwhile to have me study Chinese after English school, as my siblings did, because she assumed I wouldnt be able to see the characters. Getty Julie Chen has said she supports her husband Les Moonves amid sexual harassment allegations and the two are still together. To experience all the things she achieved in the forty two years she had lived, many of us would have taken a few . They expect it to be published later this year or early next year. Theres just no two ways about that. Julie Yip-Williams' memoir is written with honesty, humor, and anger. It is true that we walk this life alone, because we feel what we feel singularly and each of us makes our own choices. They were among the thousands of so-called boat people who fled in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Her writing is now being turned into a memoir by Random House. YIP-WILLIAMS: This this room I designed - planning to die here. Cancer crushes hope, leaving a wasteland of grief, depression, despair and a sense of unending futility. Julie Yip-Williams died of colon cancer in March 2018. The book is about 80 percent from the blog, but theres another maybe 20 percent from this older manuscript. Split Alert! In a blog entry written last July, she addressed her daughters, telling them about the instructions she had left (from who your dentist is to when your school tuition needs to be paid) and the videos she would make (about all the ins and outs of the apartment). But the herbalist refused the gold bars he was offered, and Julie came home to her angry grandmother. She was 42. KAGAN: The entire time that I'm sitting here asking Julie all these questions about her death, Mia and Isabelle are just, like, in the background, playing, totally unfazed by what we're talking about. YIP-WILLIAMS: The only person who knows how to tune in this house, which is sad. But the herbalist spared her, and Yip-Williams went on to escape Vietnam, get eye surgery, attend Harvard Law, marry another attorney, and set up a good life in New York. Even though I wont physically be here, I will be watching over you. At her death she was forty-two, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle. Farewell sweet and fierce Julie - slipping the surely bounds of earth to touch the face of God. She's giving me a tour of her Brooklyn apartment. I hope it comes through in the book. The funeral was on a late winter's day under a cloudless blue sky. YIP-WILLIAMS: (Reading) I have often dreamed that when I die, I will finally know what it would be like to see the world without visual impairment. But it is possible to reach out and find those like you, and in so doing you will feel not so lonely. She left me lots of checklists, and for the first six weeks after she died, I would sit there for 10, 12 hours a day going through all the lists. As your mother, I wish I could protect you from the pain. Rejoice in life and all of its beauty, she told her children. Did Julie read any other memoirs by people who had terminal illnesses? Yip-William, in prepare for her death from metastatic colon cancer, stepped back as a story teller, an observer of her turbulent childhood and incredible adult life she led, up to the moment she learned of her fate of dying young. She was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in 2013. Hope is a funny thing, though. Julie Ly Yip-Williams, beloved wife, mother, sister and daughter, passed away on March 19, 2018 at the age of 42, following a long and fierce battle with advanced colon cancer. Her blog was so honesther take on dealing with her life and ultimately, her death, was such an inspiration and a comfortfor myself and countless others. JoshManton and I are so sorry to hear of Julies passing. Ms. Yip-Williams received a bachelors degree in English and Asian Studies from Williams College in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard Law School. It's about how she prepared for that moment. Not only that, but her blog also serves on love and family. Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. She also has a brother, Denton and an older sister named Lyna Yip. She later graduated from Harvard Law School, traveled the world alone, married, had two daughters and worked at a prestigious New York City law firm, only to be diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in 2013. Julie Yip-Williams was born on Jan. 6, 1976, in Tam Ky. An inspiring memoir by a young mother with Stage Four metastatic cancer, The Unwinding of the Miracle challenges the way we write and talk about death and demands you contemplate your own fragility, relationships, and how you live your one precious life. Vulture. At her death she was forty-two, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle. But whatever - I'm a control freak. So that was my greatest gift - tangible gift. She is also survived by her siblings Lyna Yip of New York and Denton Yip and his family (Angel Moon, wife, and Carter and Adrian Yip, Julies nephews) of Palos Verdes Estates, CA, as well as by her parents Peter Yip and Ann Yip of Monterey Park, CA. Be stronger people because of it, for you will know that you carry my strength within you. By Julie Yip-Williams. But also I think she really, really wanted to leave a tangible legacy, particularly for the kids. At her death she was forty-two, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle. Julie Ly Yip-Williams, beloved wife, mother, sister and daughter, passed away on March 19, 2018 at the age of 42, following a long and fierce battle with advanced colon cancer. I'm sort of watching it happen as an observer. But I realized that these things are the low-hanging fruit, the easy-to-solve but relatively unimportant problems of the oh so mundane. Her blog captured her feelings of hope, hopelessness and ultimately acceptance. Finally, she is survived by her beloved cousins Caroline Yip Hendley of Westport, Connecticut and Nancy Yip Ramos of Los Angeles, whom she considered sisters, and by Chipper, her much-adored bichon frise. You will understand that joy cannot exist without sadness. Her circle of friends encompassed many parts of the globe and included people of all religions, ethnicities, political persuasions, sexual orientations and occupations. Very late, very late. Julie Yip-Williamsdied in March 2018 of colon cancer. Julie Yip-Williams died in March 2018 of colon cancer. And I'm, like, trying to really embrace that experience and, like, understand it - like, what physically is happening to me. And from those experiences, our souls expand and grow and learn and change, and we understand a little more about what it really means to be human. What strength Julie Yip-Williams and her husband had. Did you or she see these books as ultimately a force for good? This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Her husband, Joshua Williams has said the cause of her death was metastatic colon cancer. Reading [the blogs] back then, I was almost left feeling inadequate, like: Oh my God. ARI. But this story isn't about the fact that Julie died. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. The lessons that blindness and then cancer have taught me are too many for me to recount here, but I hope, when you read what follows, you will understand how it is possible to be changed in a positive way by tragedy and you will learn the true value of suffering. I have not read any of them, but I know that Julie definitely read When Breath Becomes Air, and I think also the one by Nina Riggs. She was a tour de force of organizational abilityas her husband loved to say (and she loved to hear), she was a model of efficiency, organization and clarity, and she ran a tight, firm ship, but her hand ultimately was always guided by love and concern for those of us who were fortunate enough to cross her path. She was born in Tam-Ky, Vietnam, just as the war was ending, grew up in Monterey Park, California, and graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School. I realized that I would have failed you greatly as your mother if I did not try to ease your pain from my loss, if I didnt at least attempt to address what will likely be the greatest question of your young lives. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. But I dont know if its really answered any of my deeper questions about the afterlife. Life is not fair. Soon they again flew to Los Angeles. As you may remember, Tracy Smith told Julie . KAGAN: Sometimes witnessing that unwinding of her life just meant being as present as she could, like at home with her kids. There, at what is now the UCLA Stein Eye Institute, she underwent surgery that gave her vision for the first time. We're going to start this next story with a letter. So many people will be talking about your wife, the mother of your children.Oh Lord. She was only 42 years old. When we're born, you know, we come into this life, and we don't have the consciousness to be aware of the miracle that's occurred. At her death she More about Julie Yip-Williams She was told of it only after the death of her grandmother. You have your whole life to decide how you feel about this.Yeah, I was gonna say, Get back to me in 40 years, I hope. "I have found the meaning and purpose I have desperately sought my entire life. 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