Of course we could. And you will always be in our hearts., And despite not having any formal artistic training, Raphael has done very well. Sooki didnt talk about her husband or her children or her friends or her employer; she talked about color. "[Sooki] was so many things," Wilson wrote. Rene Fleming spent two years in Germany studying voice while she was in her twenties. Sooki wore a leash as a child, the energy in her tiny frame too much for her mother to control. And so I couldn't call my mom. As the warning sirens kicked in at four in the morning, only Sooki was awake. There are days of the distant past that remain so vivid to me that I could walk back into them and pick up the conversation mid-sentence, while there are other days (weeks, months, people, places) I couldnt recall to save my life. Youre detoxifying all your inner organs.. My husband, Karl, and I sat in a dressing room with them for an hour and a half between sets. But my eye keeps going to her. Dear gave way to Dearest. I was taking in every precious day. Sooki washed her sheets and towels, cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed. And this led to you meeting Sooki. They would flow on in papery layers, in a creation act. Before I can start writing a novel, I have to know how it ends. In a previous interview with SurvivorNet,Dr. Anirban Maitra, the co-leader of the Pancreatic Cancer Moon Shot at MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains what he typically sees when patients develop this disease. Maybe not. 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. We will never know all the things other people worry about. Karl spent a huge amount of time studying weather as part of his instrument-rating prep. Shed gone to an Indian restaurant and bought bread stuffed with apricots and dates. Its not too much. She painted her granddaughter striding through a field of her own imagination, she painted herself wearing a mask, she painted me walking down our street with such vividness that I realized I had never seen the street before. All the neighborhood dogs began to howl and bark. It had been no more than seven minutes start to finish. A writers life is by definition one of solitude, but Patchett, perhaps more than others, appears determined to wrest incident out of the random details of her busy life as an A-list writer and advocate for independent bookstores. And who wouldnt be given the fact that Raphael didnt really emerge as an artist until her pancreatic cancer diagnosis in November 2018. I had put a notebook and a pen beside me on the floor before we started. You have to remember.. The producer of the audiobook sent me an article about Sooki from a 1978 issue of New York magazine. I just keep moving forward. These are the precious days of the title. is an American film and television production company established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and . Astonishing to come across such a friendship at this point in life. It had been more than two years since I met Sooki in a theater in Washington. I was told that although not everyone wanted to commit to having the tattoos, it was the most accurate way to align the radiation field that had been so meticulously laid out by a team of physicists working alongside my radiation oncologist. She had to pack her boxes the next day, Tuesday. She was Batgirl. She painted her granddaughter striding through a field of her own imagination, she painted herself wearing a mask, she painted me walking down our street with such vividness that I realized I had never seen the street before, Patchett wrote. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in a caf in the West Village with my friends Lucy and Adrian when a woman ran in and said a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Sooki had been working for the bat squad in New York when a bicentennial parade passed in front of the Bureau of Animal Affairs. The chemo, the clinical trial, the yoga and the vegetables, the prayers of nuns and all the time to paintwhat if it added up to something? I had interviews scheduled all day on Tuesday, Sooki had chemo on Wednesday, and my friends were leaving for California on Thursday. She was right here, Karl said. She needed me to take her to the hospital for an X-ray. Patchett's good-hearted nature is on full display in the title essay of her new book, a portrait of her friend Sooki Raphael, the personal assistant of Tom Hanks. Subscribers can find additional help here. Subscribe to the World edition here. Things can get very confused. I live fourteen minutes from the airport and five minutes from the hospital. She meant me. Finally she went downstairs. Karl is the king of the hospital. Winter came without a word. a link to a 20,000-word story in Harpers, New book relives chaotic 2020 news cycle in a good way, A Black descendent of Thomas Jefferson brings her ancestors out of the shadows, Amazon releases its best books of 2021 list: 'An embarrassment of riches', Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 17, 2019: Hey! Then this: june 21, 2019: As of last week, my six-month chemo run is done, and I had a follow up CT scan. Derecho. How it happened is told in the title story of These Precious Days, [] The money behind Ron DeSantiss populist faade, What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death. She certainly isnt short of abundant care for others, and by the time you get to the end of this collection its hard not to feel glad she saved her energy for writing. We lived in that good world made up of yoga and chemo, the bookstore, cooking, painting, talking over dinner. When the event was over and more pictures had been taken and everyone had said how much theyd enjoyed absolutely everything, Tom Hanks and his assistant and I found ourselves alone again, standing at the end of a long cement hallway by a stage door, saying good night and goodbye. And who wouldnt be so blown away given the fact that Raphael didnt really emerge as an artist until her pancreatic cancer diagnosis in November 2018. Which she did. Sparky Walks the Neighborhood with Ann, Nashville 2020. Am I the person youre talking to, or are you talking to someone else downstairs late at night? At first wed rolled our eyes, but now I was wondering if it would be melodramatic to cancel my April book tour of Australia and New Zealand. Then came the moment one feels on a roller coaster just as the bar locks into place and the car starts to pull up, the body pressing back into the seat, knees out ahead, and you think, Wait a minute, was this the best. Sometimes I had to get right in front of her to hear what she was saying. Karl looked up the name for it on his phone. But after years of infections, she decided to remove her implants and go flat. Her artwork reflects a deeply personal exploration of body image and sexuality. I was trying to read her lips. While they were gone I tried to imagine it: the cancer back, the wallet gone, strangers. Maybe its all the chemicals I have in me already. How Does the Story End? They have it, she said. 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. He was watching the weather. Of course I want to go. It was shallow, but perfect, and the early morning, Sea stones with holes in them have long been regarded as magical talismans, carried for protection, or safe passage. Marriage also meant that I would listen if he tried to talk me out of it. I studied what did not come naturally, she told me. If it hadnt been for the cancer, I never would have come here. He describes her as "someone who is all that is good in the world.". The three of us were standing, back of the theater in . The bottom floor of the house is an apartment, separate entrance, no kitchen. He thrilled them, buying stacks of books, signing books, posing for pictures, going next door to the Donut Den for an apple fritter. Then Covid strikes; 2020 is all but canceled and its impossible for Sooki to go home. Much love. I was going only for the night. The phone had been turned in to airport security. 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. Afterward we sat up at the hotel and talked about this new coronavirus and whether the rest of her tour would be canceled. Sooki got her flashlight and blew out the candles. I asked her whether she had ever been to Nashville before, and she said yes, once, with Tom a long time ago. She had brought a squeaky toy for Sparky. Sooki Raphael: These Precious Days RoseGallery Santa Monica | California | USA Apr 10,2021 - May 10,2021. For Patchett its Snoopy: Snoopy taught me that I would be hurt and I would get over it. In the story, Patchett writes, "Pay attention, I told myself. And we had the most amazing time. It meant she didnt have to sit out chemo for a week. We looked downstairs and in the kitchen and the den. Raphael passed peacefully on April 25. Sookis a pilot! Karl said. Sooki and I shined our flashlights on the smooth bark of the trees that lay across the streets. Sookis loving memory will live on in her husband Ken Wheeland, son Cody Wheeland, his wife Sara Wheeland and their children Anja and Oliver, her daughter Alison Villalobos and husband Luke Villalobos, her mother Miriam Raphael, her sisters Judy Raphael and Ruth Raphael, her stepbrothers Michael Fishman and Philip Fishman, and stepfather Ted Fishman an amazing circle of friends and extended family. My mother was a pilot, Sooki said, and there she was, suddenly at ease. It seemed to be key to the way humans were shaped, and I was aware that this was going on for others around you. She learned to solo an airplane before she learned to drive. Except it was Sooki, and I liked her very much. We filled up the bird feeders twice a day, scrubbed out the birdbath every morning, tracked the relationship of a couple of lizards who lived in the planter on the deck. Everything filled in. And it's such a funny thing. We took turns cooking or cooked together. What if there was some strange alchemy in the proportions that could never be exactly measured and, as a result, she lived, only to die at some later point from the thing no one saw coming: a pandemic, tornadoes, a straight-line wind. Are you sick?. We talked and then we didnt. So what are the deadlines, days needed, etc? 30, 2019: My kindness comes from sincerely wanting this recording to happen. This storywhich begins and beginsstarts again here. I hadnt meant this to be my career. Sooki had had a toucan in college. Later in the summer there was radiation, just to be safe. I could see what the cancers given me. 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. Where were you born? 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. I could already see her tumbling down the street. They were on their porches, laughing. Love became Much love. I pulled up my eye mask. She met Sooki Raphael,. Ken will like it here, too. I didnt know how the story would end. PATCHETT: Every single thing was from scratch. Why had I been so careful? Its important to think about your intentions before you start, my friend told us. There had been a meeting of some sort. We did up dog and down dog in endless repetition. Anything thats happened to me, any adversity, any good times, any bad times, Ive always kind of stood on that rock of faith. She was the magnet in the compass. They would leave in four days. It isnt that.. It's an unforgettable story. UCLA would fold her into their trial, everything seamless. 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. Paintings by Sooki Raphael. I dont want you to feel like you have to stay downstairs, I said. It wasnt that I could kill someone; it was that I could kill her. She had once shown me a picture of herself standing in the surf wearing a bikini, a sarong tied around her narrow hips. 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. God damn it, get inside, I said to my husband. It was anchored by a quarter inch of hair at most but it was indeed anchored. Ive got to take care of my nun, I told him. I worried about her dying. She helps the poor like Dorothy Day.. Did my character want to be a nun? It was a science experiment that could never be replicated. In Memoriam. When I rely on my faulty memory, the pieces are free to move. I sat at my desk for a long time, trying to make sense of this: time when there was no time, and talent all out of proportion to the task. In case you havent read it, Uncommon Type is a very good book. I think this is just the way I am, she said. We were early, they were late. On this summer night in 2017, I picked up a collection called Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks. By the time we sat down it was over. Actress & Fitness Guru Jane Fonda, 85, Says Chemo Hit Me Hard Fighting Lymphoma Years After Breast Cancer, Rock Band Kiss Co-Founder Peter Criss, 77, Male Breast Cancer Survivor, Releases New Version Of Classic Dirty Livin, For Healthy Skin Month, Take Advice From Vanderpump Rules Star Ariana Madix, a Melanoma Survivor, and Speak Up About Concerns, You Can Overcome, Says Rebecca Crews, 56, How She and Husband Terry Crews Got Through Losing Their Home, Five Kids, And Cancer. That was how I saw the coronavirusas something that could kill Sooki. 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? When she gave us the painting she had done of Sparky on the back of the couch, I felt as if Matisse had painted our dog.. 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 . Karls friend Dr.Bendell knew Sookis oncologist at UCLA and her oncologist at Stanford and her surgeon at Duke. How had she known something was wrong? Then as the world was ensnared by a global pandemic, the two friends formed a pandemic pod. In a piece for Harpers Magazine called These Precious Days, Patchett told the story of their friendship and spoke of her admiration for the paintings Raphael created at her home. Why shouldnt Tom Hanks write short stories? 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. In life, time runs together in its sameness, but in fiction time is condensedone action springboards into another, greater action. Direct flights to Los Angeles had been suspended, and even if shed wanted to fly to Dallas to wait and see whether the connecting flight would be canceled (because thats what happened now), her weekly blood draws underscored the fact that she scarcely had enough white cells to qualify for chemo, much less protect her from a pandemic while on a commercial flight. Death, I said. When was she first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer? What was the line of childrens clothing called? 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Simply put, Karl makes rain. Sooki had twice flown down to Mississippi with us to visit Karls ninety-eight-year-old mother. Sooki, I found out, was sixty-four. Im going to have to have my hair cut, she said. Like most of her paintings, the artwork from the exhibition is full of color only a soul eager to see the beauty in every day could translate onto canvas. He knew. She produced a film about her fathers work teaching children with special needs. Would it even work? He was tall and slim, happily at ease, answering questions, signing books. Use this bar to access information about the steps in your cancer journey. Wednesdays chemo hit Sooki on Friday afternoon. I thought I was helping and now I wonder if Ive made it worse.. I want to envision it as a healing room, but it reminds me of a meat locker: freezing coldIm guessing the temperature favors the delicate machinerywith a rack of blue torsos lined up on hooks. It would be another year before I saw my father again, an unimaginable unit of time in the life of a child. I was impressed that first day when the therapists swarmed the table forming the mold around me and explaining about tattoos. PGVs (pathogenic germline variants) are changes in reproductive cells (sperm or egg) that become part of the DNA in the cells of the offspring. Every day Sooki came upstairs looking spectacularembroidered jeans, velvet tops, a different coat, a perfect scarf. You all did a book event. If youre concerned about pancreatic cancer in your family, start by talking to a genetic counselor to learn more about your risk and what options you have, Everett said. You know that you dont talk about yourself, right? We were living together. I dont want to give that up., Youll never have to give up the friendship or the love, I said. Get as many nuns on this as possible. Thats like the building blocks of my, of my life, Farley told SurvivorNet. Sookis mother lived two miles from the Westchester airport. Somehow I imagined that she had mentioned she was in a clinical trial in Nashville but not that she was living with us, which didnt feel like too much of an evasion, seeing as how she managed to live with us in the quietest way imaginable. What a good idea. Facedown on a bath mat, I forced myself to take a breath. As lockdown continues, the two women practice kundalini yoga and meditation twice a day. In 1997, she had a recurrence, and then she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. She made props for TV shows. Sooki, the middle daughter. She told me how lovely it had been to lay down the burden of her own vigilance. I was grateful. PATCHETT: It was so incredible and joyful to be together and to make that kind of a friendship that you make in college, you know, with your roommate, with this total stranger who you are assigned to live with who then becomes your best friend. We could all be boring together.. On the few mornings she didnt come up at her usual time, I imagined her sick, needing something, not telling me because she didnt want to bother me. It took a while to get the mushrooms. I pushed my face into his shoulder, apologizing. This is whats been missing.. Many people loved it; some dared to hate it. Some people stay for months. The assistant was a tiny woman wearing a fitted black-velvet evening coat embroidered with saucer-size peonies. 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. Lets not forget the cancer, I said, and we laughed. Now Sooki and I sorted through them like old baseball cards. The title piece in the autobiographical essay collection These Precious Days by Ann Patchett is about her unexpected friendship with Tom Hanks's personal assistant, Sooki Raphael, who ended up living with Patchett and her husband in Nashville while enrolled in a medical trial for pancreatic cancer. It's essays. Will time be linear or can it stutter and skip? It was just the three of us now, Sooki and Karl and me. I couldnt stay upright, a hangover from the last eight hours in which I had been quite memorably deboned. In time, all I would have to say was, Its Friday. 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. She could work for Mother Teresa. I knew how to do that. She had been in the house for only a few minutes; there hadnt been enough time to lose anything. Now, their friendship lives on in Patchetts latest book which will be released on Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021, entitled These Precious Days: Essays a collection of essays that shares another intimate look at the inner workings of her mind. Sooki went downstairs to her room. Are you not sorry you did it? I felt like it took me two minutes to put that much together. Because if I didnt know that Sooki had a husband, how much did she know about me, about us? How do you get back on the plane to come home? And so she meets Sooki Raphael, Hanks' assistant. What will happen? A Celebration of Life will take place in Topanga, CA on August 21, 2021. We headed upstairs to lie side by side on our yoga mats, deciding to disregard my friends advice about staying on separate floors. Suffice to say the car I was strapped into followed a tunnel down into dark and darker colors, narrower spaces. He responded: mar. How was I going to say I was tired when she was never tired? But remembering all the wonderful ways your loved one enriched your life and moving on from there can be such a powerful way to move forward. It occurs to me that I should put that playlist on again and listen as Im writing this, but I will not. Two days later, I sent an endorsement to the editor. The house smelled of chickpea stew and rice when I came in the door that night. They were lucky and the fire skated past. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up quarantining with Tom Hanks' personal assistant. And now there was a pandemic, recurrent pancreatic cancer, and so this goodbye reminded me of my father coming onto the plane with us, sitting with me and my sister, the three of us sobbing inconsolably until finally the flight attendant would tell him he had to go. Many nights after dinner, I would ask Karl where Sooki was and then we would start looking around for her. I met Sooki Raphael for a few minutes in Washington, D.C., around three years ago, and maybe even more than that now. These months of exercise would save me. In the press release for the exhibition, ROSEGALLERY said her works used her colorful palette as an expression of a renewal of spirit and life as she healed alongside the scorched landscape of the Malibu and Topanga hills.. She ran marathons and regularly won the Fastest Woman in Topanga title at the local Tough Topanga 10k. Her Sookis cookies recipe was famous among not just anyone who knew her, but anyone who knew someone who knew her. Sooki went with him every day. So there she was, stuck with us. I was starting to understand that what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words. Tom and Rita were back from Australia. And certainly, I have made some close friendships as an adult, but there is a quality of youthful friendship that is based on wasting time together, having just whole days where you're not making plans, you're not entertaining one another. So it really was what they said, a definitive spiritual experience? Shed seen people. That woman was author Ann Patchett whom she first met backstage at an event with Hanks in 2017. Tom and I are waiting to go on. I came back from Virginia and took Sooki to see the daffodils at the botanical garden, but we were too early. In fact we were so exactly in the middle of history that we had no way of understanding what we were seeing. The ones Tom Hanks approved of were handed to me. She looked like a tiny rock star in her shaggy pale-pink coat and sunglasses and high boots. He was not one to miss a workout and neither was I. 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