Sooki sheltered-in-place with Patchett and her husband first coming to stay . Id written a childrens book and was about to go on tour. Sooki was married? I laughed. I didnt want to be one more person tugging at her coat, but I was. They were lucky to get up in the morning to fly across the country so Sooki could have a pancreaticoduodenectomy, also known as a Whipple procedure. Farley trained for the NFL draft instead of playing for Virginia Tech, and his efforts paid off. I came back from Virginia and took Sooki to see the daffodils at the botanical garden, but we were too early. I think well be back tomorrow. Ive written plenty of jacket quotes in my day, mostly for first-time writers of fiction whom I believed could benefit from the assistance. Its just. My friends arrived and we waved at one another from a distance as they gathered Sooki up. Her love and passion and beauty will continue to live in her paintings, and in all of us who were privileged to have entered her world. At the country club in Connecticut, the event organizers began to apologize as soon as we were through the door. She had wanted her life to be different, and now it was. In bed the night before, I asked Karl, How do you think this is going?, He put down his crossword puzzle. She had brought a squeaky toy for Sparky. PATCHETT: I really, really appreciate that. I didnt know you had a husband!! But in her post, Wilson referred to her as the one thing she was destined to be: an artist. I have limited time as I work til mid May, then leave the US in June until I come back to start another movie in September. But all Sooki did was help me. It was so important, she said, her voice pretty much vanishing in her mouth. If I can borrow your car, Ill drive back to the airport., I shook my head. She wasnt just her illness. Sooki left for yoga just as the waitress was bringing our eggs. I was no longer sick or well. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. It was so hard for her to talk. Raphael found great beauty during a tumultuous time of her life and shared that beauty with others through her artwork. So every time I am writing a novel, once I get about a third of the way into it and I really know what I'm doing and I love my characters, I start to think, well, what happens if I get hit by a car? I hadnt meant this to be my career. This article was originally published inThe SpectatorsUK magazine. Her true work, which had lingered for so many years in her imagination, emerged fully formed, because even if she hadnt been painting, she saw the world as a painter, not in terms of language and story but of color and shape. Tell me the news of the great world, Karl would say when he got home from work, and since many were the days I didnt leave the house, I relied on books and phone calls and emails in order to have something to contribute. People were out with their dogs. I could see her doing it. The treatments left her tired, but she was managing. There is Tom Hanks's deceased assistant, Sooki Raphael, protagonist of the title essay that went viral a few months ago when it was published by Harper's, who had gone to Nashville for her . No one had ever been so welcome. How was I going to say I was tired when she was never tired? He would tell me how lucky we were, the three of us together. Lets not forget the cancer, I said, and we laughed. There was an important piece of information that hadnt been made clear to Sooki when she came to Nashville; it was that, unlike the FOLFIRINOX, which had carved twenty pounds off her over twenty-four weeks, this course of chemotherapy had no end. Karl is not waiting on a thank-you note, I promise. But her time as Hanks assistant brought her to a woman who would later become an invaluable friend during her cancer treatment and artistic journey. Now I look like an improvised elementary school art project, and in addition to owning my permanent tattoos, I have to nurture my three little stickers and hand-drawn sharpie marks so they last six weeks. Hell make sure you get everything you need. She loved her family and was devoted to her grandchildren. Sookie paints and paints and paints. I cleaned out the freezer and the refrigerator and at every moment thought, We are so lucky. I was taking in every precious day. Sooki had been working for the bat squad in New York when a bicentennial parade passed in front of the Bureau of Animal Affairs. He claims our lives are better for all the people I bring into the house. Id been in touch with Sooki once or twice when there was talk of a bookstore in Santa Monica, and now I pinned my hopes on her as she dug into Toms schedule at Playtone, his production company. I stood there, close, willing myself not to fill in her sentences. We had just passed Stuyvesant Park when the first tower fell. There she was in the doorway, outlined in neon tubing. I told Sister Nena the whole story while we sat in the waiting room, her foot propped up on a wheelchair. There was no reason to offer unsolicited opinions on a subject I knew nothing about to a person who had just gotten into my car, but the thought of a frozen gel pack on my own head struck me as boundless misery. Could I meet him at the bookstore, Parnassus, in half an hour? (I say this as someone who is spending my days trying to write about our friendship and what happened here. Its not like youre stuck in one place. I would have given her a hug but for the pandemic. In the titular essay, Patchett reflects on her serendipitous friendship with Sooki Raphael. The park was packed this morning. It was possible, and I had no intention of thinking about it. That night as my husband and I walked our dog around the block in the cold dark, I told him about Sooki. She made wedding cakes that tasted as good as they looked. He and the other pilot talked flying with Sookis mother. She was doing every part of her job that could be done over email or by phone. Jennie and I walked our dogs together after dinner, and Sooki came with us most nights, unless she had a phone call to return, unless she wasnt feeling up to it. No, not Chekhov or Dickens or her one-time hero, Updike. You have a pretty head, I told Sooki when the job was done. Please Scream Inside Your Heart:New book relives chaotic 2020 news cycle in a good way, She states it quite plainly in the introduction, Essays Dont Die, a short piece that describes the process she used to select the essays for this book, most of which appeared in slightly different form in other publications. I gained back twenty pounds, and have been back hiking the trails and at work full time. My friend Sister Nena had just called. We have come to the point in this story when time changes. And what about the women who cleaned that house, who fixed those children their dinner? apr. She was Batgirl. She was supposed to wear a complicated Velcro gel pack (unfortunately called a penguin cap) on her head on the days she had chemo. We went home and baked a spectacular cake that was especially well suited to travel. What became of them? She liked herself again. I knew people in college and graduate school who took mushrooms, and then about thirty years passed before I heard anything about them again. Sooki had been a marathoner, though her best event was a 10K trail run. Its like a Nol Coward play but not as witty. If there were too many people there, you managed to crop them out. Tom and I are waiting to go on. may 21, 2019: Thank you for your concern about my medical procedure. New book of essays tells story. Things can get very confused. Its so amazingly generous of Karl, she whispered uncertainly. Surely we would take off the Wednesday mornings when she had to be at the hospital at seven oclock. She told me that part of the reason shed been hesitant to stay with us was that she didnt want to trade on Toms friendship with me. This was what we did at the end of the day. Treatments were on Wednesdaysthree Wednesdays on, one Wednesday offwith immunotherapy (the trial) every other week. KELLY: (Laughter). Her father was in the hospital and she had driven down from Kentucky to take care of him. All three of us had lost our fathers, all three of us were close with our mothers. Thought-provoking commentary and opinion on politics, books and the arts. We were early, they were late. We talked about what we were going to make for dinner. I didnt understand what it was, but something was in the air. She was there and then she was gone and we wouldnt see her again until the next morning. I floated upstairs in a world that would not stop changing. Off we went to bed, the book and I, and in doing so put the chain of events into motion. As soon as the roaring thunder of approval eased, he pointed at me and said, She doesnt have any questions.. How is it possible? I said as I complimented her again and again. You will love her. My childhood best friend was staying with us while this discussion was going on. I was going to tell Karl what was happening but he was looking at his own phone. So, I was surprised on my first scheduled day of radiation to have another technician pop in with a red sharpie to make three large xs near the tattoos as additional points of reference and stick clear round stickers over them. Could I say that I would like to come see her? Just you and Karl?, I thought about it for a minute, shook my head. She was the bat squad. It was so much more beautiful, the overlaying color of every petal, the very light pink against the blackness. In this collection are memoir pieces about her three fathers, one biological, two step which somehow makes you think of Goldilocks and the three bears; about a year of no shopping; about knitting; about sisters; about being nineteen in Paris; and about growing up Catholic in Nashville. She was looking to get into a clinical trial for recurrent pancreatic cancer and not finding one that had room or matched her cancer. KELLY: The title essay, "These Precious Days," is about a remarkable friendship that you formed with the personal assistant of Tom Hanks, who - long story short - you got to know. Sooki and I stood together in the kitchen, one of us washing the vegetables, the other one chopping, making it up as we went along. Simply put, Karl makes rain. I was leaving for Virginia. Because I was trying to protect myself. The chemical tide that rose in Sookis blood had not only caused her hair to fall out; it caused that hair to mat into a solid surface. assistant Sooki Raphael. Precision seemed like a good decision here. Just think, I would say to her on Wednesdays. Three time cancer survivor, MariannaCuozzo, talks to SurvivorNet about how art helps her express herself. We saw two movies with my sister. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Five-time GRAMMY Awardwinners and living legends, the Blind Boys of Alabama both defined and innovated traditional jubilee gospel, turning their live shows into roof-raising musical Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Laila Biali masterfully mixes jazz and pop, bringing virtuosity and unpredictability to songs that are concise and catchy (Washington Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA. Its important to think about your intentions before you start, my friend told us. No events scheduled for January 19, 2023. She told me she thought shed put too much of her creative energy into her outfits over the years since she had stopped painting, though she might have said it to make me feel better. She had moved in before the pandemic. Where I was going was death. Not everyone is like this. Sooki had two young grandchildren in San Diego and made plans to bring them to an event I was doing there, but they didnt show. I find a stream and follow it, the stream dries up, and Im left to look for moss on the sides of trees. How had I not asked her all these things before? That at home she felt responsible for overseeing every aspect of her treatment, researching cures, double-checking medical ordersshe had caught a few harrowing errors along the way, near missesbut here she knew that Dr.Bendell and Karl always had their eyes on her. On Thursday morning I started to cry while walking Sparky. I wouldnt. Its just. She stopped. My whole life Ive wanted this time. . They told me the story later: How after they landed, when they were all standing together on the lawn outside the small airport, a police officer came and told them they had to disperse. In some ways its not unlike putting together my own life. We miss you. PATCHETT: So I first met Sooki Raphael backstage when I was interviewing Tom for his collection of short stories. Theyd fallen on the mailboxes. I had told her the make of my car, and she waved when I pulled up in front of the airport. In an essay describing why she decided not to have children (There Are No Children Here) Patchett writes that she had to make a choice between writing and children and lacked the energy for both. I could see themmy family and my friends. I had breakfast with my editor and agent and publicist, and when we were finished they each decided not to go back to the office after all. Id seen her work in action. The experience of waiting backstage before an event is always the same. Shed called me from outside the airport. I knew there was a part of her that believed that maybe what Nashville had to offer in terms of fighting cancer was happening in our house, that she was improving because she was with us. We repeated these facts, we made them a mantra. The tumor in her liver was shrinking. Sooki had brought her computer with her. There was a sitting room downstairs, the library, her bedroom and bathroom. The trick was coming up with the nerve to confess our plans to Karl. Sadly, Raphael passed peacefully on April 25. Its funny, but all this time I was sure it was exactly that. I was interested in her children. I had just finished my latest novel, and on a lark of the highest order, I sent him an email asking if he might record the audiobook. I promised to call when it was over. The phone hadnt been run over, nothing in the wallet was missing. Do you even realize your life isnt normal? Niki said when I announced my trip. "They have it," she said. She asked whether that was cheating and was told not to worry about it. It meant she didnt have to sit out chemo for a week. There was an abstract image, and it was clearly younot in a physical way, but as a soul. I woke up the dog and the three of us left in the darkness. I am now sitting at the airport waiting to catch a plane to my next opinion, at Sloan Kettering in NY. I saw my mother and sister. Are you sick?. But also undeniable are Patchetts generosity of spirit, compassion and gift for friendship. What about your sisters? I asked. She hadnt seen it happen. Come on, Sooki, he said, his voice gone grand. Sooki arrived in Nashville on Sunday, February 23, just after Kate left. Sooki said shed heard about it, too, and knew other cancer patients whod tried it, but she was hesitant, as any right-minded adult would be hesitant about adding the X factor of fungi into an already complicated chemical mix. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. What Sooki is, Tom wrote to me in an email later, is all that is good in the world.. In her last two and a half years, Sooki started painting. A man answered. At any point in life. Need to create a login? Who is she? Absolutely. We both agreed that if this was the brink of extinction, it was nice to be together. He was in Nashville. I was having trouble with my own volume now. 68 books15.8k followers Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. They were dead, the wires, werent they? KELLY: My conversation this past fall with author Ann Patchett about her latest book "These Precious Days. In Patchett's wildest dreams, she likely never saw a friendship blossoming later in life that would lead her to become a safe haven for a woman fighting against cancer. I felt like someone was slamming me against a wall, not in anger but as a job. But I was a freshman at Sarah Lawrence, and my cousins had brought me home for Halloween my first year of college because I was really homesick. It has to be one of the most extraordinary stories of lockdown how Tom Hankss assistant Sooki Raphael, undergoing treatment for recurrent pancreatic cancer, came to be living in the basement of the novelist Ann Patchett and her husband Dr Karl VanDevender. Sooki left messages for the doctors and put her phone at the end of her yoga mat, waiting for the call back while we practiced. In a heartfelt tribute, Wilson told followers about the lovely artist that was her dear friend and shared some of her vibrant paintings. Sooki Raphael is a TH Assistant at Playtone based in Universal City, California. And the trial at UCLA was canceled because that's what COVID did. Im supposed to be flying.. I had met Sooki, after all. Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease that is difficult to detect because symptoms - including jaundice and weight loss - typically present at a later stage in the cancer's development. Finally he stopped going in. We tried to be jolly and failed and cried again. And I had never done anything like that before. I was already years ahead of myself, thinking of all the good Tom Hanks could do for independent bookstores. Not to advance your cancer treatment? She was to stay in the trial, three Wednesdays on, one Wednesday off, until the regime was no longer effective or, to put it another way, until she died. We danced. I flew to New York early the next morning, took a car to New Jersey, signed several hundred books, attended a cocktail-party fund-raiser for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, gave a talk in a crowded town hall, got to my hotel room in Manhattan at midnight, got up in the morning to tape a segment for the Today show, then was back on a plane. She had her surgery at Duke and survived. My breath was roaring now, in and out, my lungs enormous bellows that would not tolerate my death. Spanish for straight, direct. Of course I opted for tattoos. I would be in and out, other people would spend the night, which would be fine, plenty of room for everyone. It was just that we had piled up so much junk to keep from hearing it. Was it like they said it would be, life-changing? But I think Ann is the saint in the story. Sooki came to Nashville and stayed in one place, no more movie stars, no more trips to Morocco and Tan-Tan. Youre detoxifying all your inner organs.. I was packing boxes, writing cards, and making cheerful videos in which I extolled the virtues of the books I loved. Tom and Rita were back from Australia. The clothes are small, she said. You must have Mary Poppinss suitcase.. He has me repeat my name, birth date and area of radiation each time before I enter the room. I went to the grocery store and piled up the cart. She left her canvases as colorful as she led her life. It hadnt occurred to me that he might say yes. When it was over, I managed to make my way into the shower, perhaps the biggest single accomplishment of my life. Even if it wasnt a perfect plan, it was better than doing nothing. I flew back to New York for two more events, the first one in Connecticut. The other partners in his clinic asked him to stay home and practice telemedicine until there was a better sense of how the pandemic would be resolved. I thought of her time as precious now. By the time individuals walk into the clinic with symptoms like jaundice, weight loss, back pain or diabetes, its often very late in the stage of the disease., RELATED: Increased Thirst and Dark Urine: Researchers Reveal Two New Signs of Pancreatic Cancer As Cases Increase Over Last 18 Years, Detecting Pancreatic Cancer Early Is Crucial. I didnt want to get stuck in Auckland, but if flights were canceled and I was stranded in Tulsa, Karl could always come and get me. What a good idea. We didnt know each other, and for the most part our correspondence had come after this defining fact. Sooki Raphael leaves her canvas as colorful as she has led her life. Sooki and I needed the same thing: to find someone who could see us as our best and most complete selves, writes Patchett. Susan Joan "Sooki" Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. We love you, Sooki. It has to be one of the most extraordinary stories of lockdown how Tom Hanks's assistant Sooki Raphael, undergoing treatment for recurrent pancreatic cancer, came to be living in the basement of the American novelist Ann Patchett and her husband Dr Karl VanDevender. And if you decide you want to stay, well, you dont have to give that up either., Sooki the Tireless, Sooki the Indefatigable, looked as if she was about to split apart. Im not sure I can describe it without it sounding like an extension of the mushrooms, but it had that kind of depth and clarity of message for me. Its okay for us to be in the same room, Sooki said, a statement rather than a question. But the clinical trial she needed was here in Nashville at the hospital where my husband worked. Maybe its all the chemicals I have in me already. One of them was shirtless and had a colorful parrot on his shoulder. Id spent two hours on a stage talking to Tom Hanks, and now I wanted to talk to Sooki. Two days later, I sent an endorsement to the editor. It's clear this was hard to write about when you turned to actually try to capture Sooki in an essay. Should I have woken them up and made them come down to the basement? But months later there he was again. Like, I really understand that I'm going to die, but I don't want the whole novel to be wiped out. We had found each other and we would not be lost. Sooki washed her sheets and towels, cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed. Id be grateful if youd pray for her, I said, because while I was uncertain about prayer in general, I believed unequivocally in the power of Sister Nenas prayers. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition of paintings at ROSEGALLERY called These Precious Days, just like Patchetts piece. Sooki, in her eye mask, was lying so serenely beneath the furry blanket she had brought us from California that I wondered if she was dead. He watched as she went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy while still working and taking care of her family. There was a little kitchen in the dorm, and I got a book, and I made Thanksgiving dinner. Would it even work? We are Southern, and it is like this here, always. How Much Is A Raphael Painting Worth? A post shared by Sooki Raphael (@sookiraphaelartist), What came out of her brush was a feast of colors and stories that she had kept in her heart for years, feelings that were just waiting to explode, the post read. We can go up and back the same day.. It has to be one of the most extraordinary stories of lockdown how Tom Hanks's assistant Sooki Raphael, undergoing treatment for recurrent pancreatic cancer, came to be living in the basement of the novelist Ann Patchett and her husband Dr Karl VanDevender. She was an expert in dealing with the medical system, after all. More news about planes: friends of mine in Nashville who knew what was going on with Sooki, and who have a house in California and a jet that takes them there, the nicest possible friends, offered her a ride home. This storywhich begins and beginsstarts again here. PET scans) were showing no sign of disease. By showing her what her life might have looked like and then sending her home. By seeing what I wanted to see instead of what was actually in front of me. Hows the painting coming? I would ask. But now shes memorialized in author Ann Patchetts latest book. Facedown on a bath mat, I forced myself to take a breath. But the only information I had was in the book. My continuous and varied relationship with exercise was an inheritance from my father. But my sixty-four-year-old houseguest with recurrent pancreatic cancer asked for absolutely nothing but this. She became interested in urban animals. But over time the idea drifted to the back burner. Sookis impending departure touched a memory I made a point of not revisiting: My sister and I flew from Tennessee to Los Angeles for one week every summer to see our father, and on the morning of the day we were going back to Tennessee I would start to cry. You dont think this is crazy?, I didnt say that, but I know youre trying to help Sooki.. 2,560 Followers, 85 Following, 25 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sooki Raphael (@sookiraphaelartist) I wanted Karls comfort and was glad he wasnt there. As lockdown continues, the two women practice kundalini yoga and meditation twice a day. Then one day she told me she was starting to shed. She was twenty-one. Why shouldnt Tom Hanks write short stories? I must have dropped it. (He also flies a Cessna plane, which comes in handy when Sookis mother is taken into hospital in New York.) Whether she was trying to hold on to her own sense of privacy or what she perceived to be our privacy, I didnt know. She told me that at home she had become impatient and angry. Whether you loved it or hated it may depend on your feelings about celebrity culture since the benevolent presence of Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, hovers in the background. She painted as fast as she could get her canvases prepped, berating herself for falling asleep in the afternoons. There was no stopping it. Her kids were in school by then. We could all be boring together.. Had it been a bad book or just a good-enough book, I would have put it down, but page after page it surprised me. But of course the thing to do would be to go, wouldnt it? Thats been everything to me, and my life. Happy to help. She had wanted to study painting in college but it all came too easilythe color, the form, the techniqueshe didnt have to work for any of it. Many nights after dinner, I would ask Karl where Sooki was and then we would start looking around for her. Do you want to come downstairs? she asked. In a recent post made to her official Instagram, the caption echoed this sentiment of Raphael sharing her unique perspective of the world through her art. Sooki had gone to work for the New York City Department of Healths Bureau of Animal Affairs right out of college. I knew that she worried about her ninety-four-year-old mother in Rye Brook, New York, and read to her grandchildren in San Diego over Zoom. The world asks us to engage, and for the most part we can, but given the choice wed rather stay home. Every day Sooki came upstairs looking spectacularembroidered jeans, velvet tops, a different coat, a perfect scarf. Susan Joan Sooki Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. But before her passing, she had a long career in the film industry which included her time spent as Hanks assistant before indulging her passion for painting. The greenroom crowd was then escorted to their seats, and we were ushered to the dark place behind the curtainTom Hanks, his assistant, and I. I did kundalini yoga in the morning, a practice that was built around a great deal of rapid breathing, and then I went on to other things. The days went on and I could feel Sooki slipping, hounded by her own indecision. I could have said I was busy writing a novel, and that would have been both ridiculous and true. When undergoing treatment for cancer, looking inward for inspiration can be a very cathartic journey that helps with recovery. I should have planned better, she said. I worried, and thought it was not my place to ask. We just kept sitting there in the stillness, the kind of dark that electricity wants us to forget ever existed. Shed only been here for a couple of hours. We had been together for the duration of this new world. She once caught bats for the City of New York. It was anchored by a quarter inch of hair at most but it was indeed anchored. As it turned out, Sooki and I needed the same thing: to find someone who could see us as our best and most complete selves. I cant always be the one whos taking everything.. Heres how the story came about: Patchett was invited to interview Hanks while he was on a book tour. The press release is about to go out. I sat there and watched her read, waiting for something more, something that explained it. I'll see if I can get her into a trial here in Nashville. Call me crazy, but that seems like a lot. We were well into March by then. Common sense and a book - that's all you need. The truth was that we had no idea how long we were going to be together. First the tornadoes, Sooki said, taking picture after picture, the giant root systems pulling up slabs of earth taller than Karl, the bright spring grass meeting the sidewalk at right angles. If she missed a session, would her hair fall out anyway? And this led to you meeting Sooki. Theres a grain of truth in, Short term rentals have become a source of income for some property owners in the Santa Monica Mountains and a source of aggravation for others,, Theres a special place just a few miles up the coast, where whales, dolphins, and sea lions swim close to shore, where you can watch. Sooki had come to our house thinking shed be staying with someone who was gone half the time and busy the other half of the time. There was work to do. That was my reward. Click here to dismiss this module permanently. Accuracy and availability may vary. He wanted to know whether I liked owning a bookstore. After a while she drifted up to the kitchen, taking a stab at the half of banana I had abandoned. Was this what COVID-19 felt like? Wonderful Sooki! Then Covid strikes; 2020 is all but canceled and its impossible for Sooki to go home. There was no more walking to a class in the dark of morningeverything was closedand so I asked her if she wanted to exercise with me. 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