Shed gone to an Indian restaurant and bought bread stuffed with apricots and dates. Precision seemed like a good decision here. No outfit ever showed up twice. And there I was, going nowhere. You will love her. Our hearts have been filled with the comfort his films have given us, and that, coupled with the fact that hes a nice man, made it easy to line up a group of booksellers who were eager to pitch in. The car I was locked into was now hurtling down through a million winking flagella, every one a different color. Thats an important distinction and I encourage anybody who goes through this journey as a caregiver and then has to face loss, to think very carefully about how to move forward.. I came and watched from the open door. As the number spiked this week at 1700 U/L, I ran out of excuses, and my PET scan on Wednesday showed a return of the cancer to my liver. I was angry at myself. We at Harper's Magazine are deeply saddened by the loss of our former contributing editor Barry Lopez (1945-2020), who died on Christmas Day.Over the course of four decades, Barry wrote more than a dozen works of criticism, reportage, and memoir for the magazine, all of them informed by the combination of wonder and moral urgency that made him one of America's most beloved . Why shouldnt Tom Hanks write short stories? Then Covid strikes; 2020 is all but canceled and its impossible for Sooki to go home. My reading on this flight is a book called Radical Remission. It was a shaggy dog of a story by a woman passionate about dogs, touching on a variety of subjects, including her friendship with Tom Hanks assistant Sooki Raphael; Raphaels treatment for cancer; the early days of the coronavirus pandemic; the art and craft of writing; and I kid you not psychedelic mushrooms. I am hopeful and feeling radical. assistant Sooki Raphael. Didnt he know? Karl had started flying in Mississippi when he was ten. RELATED: For Actor Val Kilmer & Millions Fighting Cancer, Theres New Evidence Art Helps Reduce Anxiety, Theres no clock on creativity, Wilson wrote on Instagram. There was a little kitchen in the dorm, and I got a book, and I made Thanksgiving dinner. Seventy percent of participants rated it among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives. He rolled his eyes, but he kept reading. KELLY: And the timing of this - she comes to live with you while she's doing the treatment, and this turns out to be the beginning of the pandemic. Where were you born? Coping after the loss of a loved one to cancer is never going to be an easy journey. She had been in the house for only a few minutes; there hadnt been enough time to lose anything. How thrilled they would have been to have even a few of the hours she wasted with us. This was eight hours of hard labor. We talked and then we didnt. People are not characters, no matter how often we tell them they are; conversations are not dialogue; and the actions of our days dont add up to a plot. Were just reading. I tried to imagine chemo while living in a hotel. She hadnt seen it happen. 30, 2019: I imagine your kindness comes from you being kind. Pay attention, I told myself. I could see her doing it. Her California and Tennessee oncologists had conferred so that she could transfer from one hospital to the other without missing a treatment. She was there and then she was gone and we wouldnt see her again until the next morning. Death, I said. Sooki hadnt lost weight but she was losing her ability to project her voice. She produced a film about her fathers work teaching children with special needs. But of course I was the one who took everything. Im still hereat Playtone and in general. Sooki and I shined our flashlights on the smooth bark of the trees that lay across the streets. Rita Wilson recently posted a tribute to her friend, Sooki Raphael, who painted throughout her treatment for pancreatic cancer. My whole life Ive wanted this time. Its okay for us to be in the same room, Sooki said, a statement rather than a question. There are people here all the time. This wasnt the first time Id invited someone we didnt know to live with us. She made props for TV shows. Sookis a pilot! Karl said. 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. Coping with the loss of a loved one to cancer is incredibly challenging, but moving forward with the lessons your loved one shared and remembering you dont have to forget them to move forward can be a great place to start. Why had I been so careful? My death. It was so important, she said, her voice pretty much vanishing in her mouth. Hanks, by way of reciprocation, agrees to do the audio recording of Patchetts eighth novel, The Dutch House, and a sporadic email exchange between Patchett and Sooki develops into a friendship. My childhood best friend was staying with us while this discussion was going on. FOLFIRINOX had also given her a profound aversion to cold. When I rely on my faulty memory, the pieces are free to move. ), she developed a deep and lasting friendship with his assistant, Sooki. feb. 7, 2020: When last we typed you were on your way to Stanford for a second opinion. The house smelled of chickpea stew and rice when I came in the door that night. 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The Amazing Rita Wilsons New Film About Choosing Life; How She Beat Cancer & Became A Songwriter, Hot, Sweaty And Itchy Feeling Turns Out To Be Cancer For 42-Year-Old Man When To Seek Help, 54-Year-Olds Misdiagnosed Muscles Spasms In Shoulder Turn Out To Be Pancreatic Cancer, Apples Steve Jobs Was Trying To Accept Powerlessness & His Place In The Universe The Newly Revealed Email To Himself. We still had customers even if they couldnt come into the store, and they were fantastically loyal. What Sooki thought she should have done with her life was paint. Maybe it had something to do with her job. I hoped he would ask me to join them. And youre going to freeze your head for eight hours every week? Wed been together for a matter of minutes. Derecho. Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process. PATCHETT: Every single thing was from scratch. That night as my husband and I walked our dog around the block in the cold dark, I told him about Sooki. There are so many things I understand now, she said. Many were the mornings the yoga felt endless to me, and so I would give her a wave as I left the mat and headed off to my desk. You okay? Sooki asked. Up and down the street the lights clicked off; our house went dark. Karl is a doctor, but Sooki had been treated at UCLA, Stanford, Duke, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. We went home and baked a spectacular cake that was especially well suited to travel. 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. I couldnt. She had said almost nothing and yet my eye kept going to her, the way ones eye goes to the flash of iridescence on a hummingbirds throat. Rene Fleming spent two years in Germany studying voice while she was in her twenties. I told him. We climbed over branches, met an impasse, turned to walk another way. No, Im fine. We danced. In life, time runs together in its sameness, but in fiction time is condensedone action springboards into another, greater action. There was only color and the color was keeping time with the music, color breaking apart into tiles the size of Chiclets, the color of Chiclets, from which cathedrals rose in the sacred spirit of the Johns Hopkins playlist. I want to meet Tom Hanks, she said. Finally she went downstairs. 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. My friends arrived and we waved at one another from a distance as they gathered Sooki up. You explain it in the opening chapter. I came back from Virginia and took Sooki to see the daffodils at the botanical garden, but we were too early. I keep throwing things out. One of them was shirtless and had a colorful parrot on his shoulder. Sooki Raphael is an artist. Hows the painting coming? I would ask. Will time be linear or can it stutter and skip? Plenty of nuns were married before., You never know. Then she looked at me, her face suddenly brightened by a plot twist. He was in Nashville. This was what I knew about Sooki: She lived in Los Angeles. Save me. I wasnt suffering the crashing waves of anxiety that battered down so many people I knewthough two hours of daily yoga and meditation also contributed to keeping panic at bay. Ann had only briefly met Sooki Raphael, Tom Hanks' personal assistant for over two decades, at an author event, but after learning Sooki was in treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer and hoping to be included in a proposed Los Angeles clinical trial, the author devised a plan. It occurs to me that I should put that playlist on again and listen as Im writing this, but I will not. What became of them? 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. But all Sooki did was help me. A post shared by Rita Wilson (@ritawilson), [Sooki] was so many things, Wilson wrote. It becomes the woods. 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. Sooki had downloaded it. 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. She meant me. And the trial at UCLA was canceled because that's what COVID did. Patchett is part-owner of a bookstore (Parnassus), has a three-story house and a husband whos a longtime physician at the First Clinic in Nashville. The day after that she came upstairs wearing a sock hat. It isnt that.. When Im putting together a novel, I leave all the doors and windows open so the characters can come in and just as easily leave. "They have it," she said. You are powerful. It would be a nightmare.. I couldnt stay upright, a hangover from the last eight hours in which I had been quite memorably deboned. This was what marriage must look like from the other side. Do you ever miss being alone in your house? she asked me once. I had cut a small bouquet of Lenten roses and put them on the night table. The four frozen caps were to be stored in a cooler filled with fifty pounds of dry ice. For a while she filled in for a friend and was the assistant to a film director, and then another friend introduced her to Tom, who was looking for someone. We have come to the point in this story when time changes. I was starting to understand that what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words. But the clinical trial she needed was here in Nashville at the hospital where my husband worked. He thanks me for it. How did she have twenty-eight vials of blood in her? No doubt if Tom Hanks and Ann Patchett believe their friend to possess such wonderful qualities, she probably is a saint. Im sure these words cant adequately convey what was such a radiant message, but it stayed with me so strongly as I woke up during the night, and thats the best I can describe it. All this time Id been afraid of prying, only to discover that Sooki was happy to talk, to tell me about the bats, the sailboat to St.Barts, the desert in Tan-Tan, the surgery. How could I not have known? We call it the VanDevender Home for Wayward Girls. I wonder, I said to her one night while we walked Sparky around the block, do you think youre a good assistant because youre a private person, or did you become a private person because youve been an assistant for a long time?. Its so amazingly generous of Karl, she whispered uncertainly. Such a beautiful coat, I said to her. MRIs! I can fly you up, Karl offered, once her mother was safely home. Would you just paint us a picture of her? Okay, he said. Once I start writing things down, I feel like Im nailing the story in place. Never want to see this again? She loved Dr.Bendell. 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. That was how I saw the coronavirusas something that could kill Sooki. In Memoriam. The overarching theme in many of the essays is the writing life, from the kindly advice she got as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence from the celebrated author Allan Gurganus to her near-religious experience reading the works of the childrens author Kate DiCamillo. "How other people live is pretty much all I think about. Susan Joan "Sooki" Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. She had to make her train. And I found maybe five other kids who had done the same thing and decided that I was going to make Thanksgiving dinner. It seemed to be key to the way humans were shaped, and I was aware that this was going on for others around you. Karl disagreed. He didnt know her, and I didnt exactly know her either. We did a different hour-long class every morning, identifying our favorites, ordering more DVDs. He was to play Elviss manager, Colonel Tom Parker. 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. KELLY: Speaking of friendships that we make in college, early in life when we - it feels like we have all this time to just live in the present, tell me about another essay - "The First Thanksgiving." No, its wonderful having her here.. In the case of The Dutch House, Id started to think about a poor woman who suddenly became rich, and because she was unable to deal with the change in circumstances, she left her family and went to India to follow a guru. Email tilts toward the overly familiar. Out on the tarmac, I could see her again exactly as she was, resplendent in her velvet coat, her black beret. Jessica Everett, a genetic counselorat Perlmutter Cancer CentersPancreatic Cancer Centerat NYU Langone, encourages people in this category to look into possible screening options. We didnt know each other, and for the most part our correspondence had come after this defining fact. No empty spiritual space. Dont go anywhere you wouldnt want to get stuck, a doctor friend had told me. Sadly, Raphael passed peacefully on April 25. The energy it took to stay alive, the impossibility of quitting. On this summer night in 2017, I picked up a collection called Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks. He shook his head. I lost her for a while, and then she was back again. He was selected by the Tennessee Titansas the number 22 overall pick in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. I was sorry for what Id done to him, by which I meant poisoning myself. may 31, 2020: Ive already worked out this morning. She told me how lovely it had been to lay down the burden of her own vigilance. 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. She had their protection, and that knowledge had opened up so much time in the day. I dont even know how to respond to such generosity. It was the last hour of a long day. Would it even work? Dont do this., That was when her eyes would well up. This article was originally published inThe SpectatorsUK magazine. Did my character want to be a nun? Sooki came to Nashville and stayed in one place, no more movie stars, no more trips to Morocco and Tan-Tan. Maybe its all the chemicals I have in me already. Karl was seventy-two. The more literary essays include an introduction to the stories of Eudora Welty (No writer I know of tells the truth of the landscape like Welty); pieces on book covers (I finally knew how to ask for what I wanted I would send my books into the world wearing the best suit of clothes I could find); childrens stories; sitting next to John Updike at a lunch at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and perhaps my favorite, To the Doghouse, on literary influences. He wanted to know whether I liked owning a bookstore. The last few months, the oncologists were watching the numbers and Western medicine offered nothing to do but to wait and see where the cancer showed up. We werent the only ones who felt restless. He claims our lives are better for all the people I bring into the house. Sooki wore a leash as a child, the energy in her tiny frame too much for her mother to control. Im good. I wanted to say hello very quietly so as not to bother her. Karl is the king of the hospital. And despite the fact that cancer has essentially been her whole life, Cuozzo has recognized herself as a lot more than a diagnosis by focusing on her life as a mother and an artist. Miraculously, after a spate of vigorous exercise there would be enough white cells to slip her in just under the wire. I met the hosts of the event and a few people who worked for them. Sooki didnt talk about her husband or her children or her friends or her employer; she talked about color. Who is she? It was so hard for her to talk. 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. I waited but nothing came next. How it happened is told in the title story ofThese Precious Days, Patchetts second collection of essays. Death was there during those long, sunny days. I was introduced to Tom Hankss editor, Tom Hankss agent, his publicist, his assistant, Tom Hanks himself. I wasnt sure why I was negotiating my characters future with my friend, but there I was, listening. Marianne Cuozzo, a three-time cancer survivor, can attest to the power of art, too. The rain went on for another half an hour, and when it gave up I put Sparky on his leash and the three of us went outside to wander and gape with our neighbors. I just keep moving forward. There were so many other people who would have done anything to be with herher mother and husband, her daughter and son and grandchildren, her sisters and all of her friends. Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process. I shook my head. Surely there was a piece of this story she was leaving out because the next thing I knew shed sailed off with them. Three time cancer survivor, MariannaCuozzo, talks to SurvivorNet about how art helps her express herself. 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. The essays, even when they are nominally about something else, are about the weight and grief of relationships: with her father and two stepfathers, her best friend, her husband and, improbably, actor Tom Hanks' assistant, a woman named Sooki with whom Patchett develops a deep bond. The trick was coming up with the nerve to confess our plans to Karl. She apologized for her late response, saying that shed had a medical procedure and hadnt been in the office. It was her only chance of getting back safely anytime soon. Plans were made for Sooki to come to Nashville. 30, 2019: My kindness comes from sincerely wanting this recording to happen. Could I say that I would like to come see her? But she rarely stayed upstairs. Karl and the dog went out on the front porch to read the newspaper. But they had survived. I didnt know you had a husband!! She was the New York City Bat Lady at 21. Karl was standing in the doorway. . Treatments were on Wednesdaysthree Wednesdays on, one Wednesday offwith immunotherapy (the trial) every other week. View Sooki Raphael's business profile as TH Assistant at Playtone. Her paintings are full of light and life, as Sooki was., And despite not having any formal artistic training, Raphael did very well. The money behind Ron DeSantiss populist faade, What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death. Donations can be made in her name to Pancan.org or Seasave.org/oceanofsooki. I told her as much. She was perfectly willing to talk, she wanted to, and now she was leaving in the morning. I gained back twenty pounds, and have been back hiking the trails and at work full time. He was watching the weather. Our newsletter vital information, hope, and healing, delivered weekly. 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. And we were living exactly in the moment. 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. Wonderful Sooki! Implicit in the idea of everyone getting together was the reality that this could be the last time it would happen. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray. ROSEGALLERY is presenting These Precious Days, a solo exhibition of paintings by Sooki Raphael, on view from 10 April until 10 May, 2021. She repeated her gratitude and I waved it away. Im just wondering if you got in the habit of not talking about yourself because of the work you do. I told her about a friend of mine who worked as an assistant for a hedge-fund manager in New York, and how she parked every piece of herself at the door when she went to work in the morning. Old habits. Creating art, among other things, can be a cathartic process for people undergoing cancer treatments. I know how to structure my time. Curiosity is the rock upon which fiction is built.". And so I couldn't call my mom. The tumor in her liver was shrinking. Hell make sure you get everything you need. I asked whether she was okay. Shed worked on a documentary about George Romero called Document of the Dead (she was a zombie in Dawn of the Dead). Then this: june 21, 2019: As of last week, my six-month chemo run is done, and I had a follow up CT scan. I will keep you more closely posted as I move ahead (in the right color shoes). I turned out the light and kept thinking about the leash, the marathons, the trail running, the yoga, the walking in the desert, the painting and painting and painting. And this led to you meeting Sooki. I was also greatly occupied by the bookstore. Every day Sooki came upstairs looking spectacularembroidered jeans, velvet tops, a different coat, a perfect scarf. She was checking email or trying to make notes. He talked to his patients on the phone. Someone wound the clock and suddenly the second hand, so long suspended, began to tick again, pushing us forward. Sooki was desperate to be helpful. The people around him arranged themselves into different configurations so that the assistant could take their pictures, each one handing over his or her cell phone. And anyway, its my fault. We were early, they were late. I didnt worry about her embarrassing herself. 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. It's clear this was hard to write about when you turned to actually try to capture Sooki in an essay. Niki works at the bookstore. I thought he should be angry at me. But I think Ann is the saint in the story. There is another guest suite on the main floor and we live on the top floor. There are no words here, I thought. The essay, "These Precious Days," chronicles Patchett's meeting with actor Tom Hanks, who was promoting his first book of short stories, Uncommon Type, and had asked Patchett for an endorsement. In bed the night before, I asked Karl, How do you think this is going?, He put down his crossword puzzle. Moving Forward after Losing a Loved One to Cancer. On the first Sunday in May, in the late afternoon, a storm kicked up, not expected but not a surprise either. Tom and Rita were in Australia, where he was about to start shooting a movie about Elvis Presley. The truth was that we had no idea how long we were going to be together. I wouldnt have had this time with you and Karl. Whether she was trying to hold on to her own sense of privacy or what she perceived to be our privacy, I didnt know. Karl found a giant bright-blue tarp in the garage and Sooki spread it over the floor and table downstairs, setting herself up to paint. It was so much more beautiful, the overlaying color of every petal, the very light pink against the blackness. Outside the rain was dark and lashing. On the Trail of a Mountain Lion The footprint was in the middle of the trail. 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. 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. Forget about the heartfelt letters. 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. But when? Id come up with the answer months ago. I finally asked her to write down the phone numbers of her husband and son and daughter, telling her that if she got sick, if she were in the hospital unexpectedly, Id need to know how to get a hold of them. You can live here for the rest of your life, I said, and I meant it. Ive written plenty of jacket quotes in my day, mostly for first-time writers of fiction whom I believed could benefit from the assistance. Nothing had to. Would he think to tell me if something had happened? What came out of her brush was a feast of colors and stories that she had kept in her heart for years. For what? he asked. There were no words because it wasnt about words. The second time they came because Rita was singing at the Grand Ole Opry. If I can borrow your car, Ill drive back to the airport., I shook my head. I would save what I could save, and, along with my business partner, Karen Hayes, and a small, ferocious staff (including my sister Heather) who never backed down, I was determined to save the bookstore. 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. And this led to you meeting Sooki. KELLY: Wow. Curiosity is the rock upon which fiction is built. $23.99. It had been languishing in a pile by the dresser for a while, and Id left it there because of an unarticulated belief that actors should stick to acting. Need to create a login? Like a Cessna? And you will be surprised by how comforting it is to be very sick with an actual doctor upstairs. No events scheduled for January 19, 2023. She was the magnet in the compass. 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