It was just that we had piled up so much junk to keep from hearing it. There was no hesitation on the canvases, no timidity. You should come back to the music, she said sympathetically. So all the other girls went home. I thought some nights my back would snap. 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. She lugged her suitcase out to the car without my knowing it. 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. Pay attention every minute. 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 cancers development. Hows the painting going? Tom and Rita were back from Australia. I think this is just the way I am, she said. When we got home from our walk, I emailed Sooki and said that if she wanted Karl to check on the possibility of a trial in Nashville she should send her medical records. In fact we were so exactly in the middle of history that we had no way of understanding what we were seeing. Get help here. Shes Catholic. I would love to stay with you for my first night or two in Nashvilleit would be wonderful to spend some time with you. Our house was a holding pattern, a neutral space without expectation where all that mattered was her recovery. 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. As the co-owner of a bookstore, I do this sort of thing, and while I mostly do it in Nashville, where I live, there have certainly been requests interesting enough to get me on a plane. Dear gave way to Dearest. So the trial was supposed to start at UCLA a couple of weeks later. On Thursday morning I started to cry while walking Sparky. I could see Ken and how hes always been there for me, how he steps back to let me shine. I was already years ahead of myself, thinking of all the good Tom Hanks could do for independent bookstores. He would bring a copilot to split up the hours. Cuozzo was first diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma in 1994 at the age of 28. Wednesday was chemo. Karl had started flying in Mississippi when he was ten. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. There is no sense in putting that burden on yourself. People were sitting in their cars, in their driveways, charging their phones. This was the closest I could come to understanding what happened to Sooki. Of course I want to go. Her sisters were in, her mother was thrilled. They had recovered. I wasnt sure why I was negotiating my characters future with my friend, but there I was, listening. I never cry, and yet I had plans to do nothing else for the rest of the day and maybe the rest of the week. I was happy, even thrilled, to stop traveling. 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. We had been together for the duration of this new world. Your nun? he wrote, as opposed to what most people would say, Your nun?. Come on, Sooki, he said, his voice gone grand. "They have it," she said. There was no money or freedom or wherewithal to buy another ticket and see him sooner. And I think that that's the best thing we can possibly do." At Harper 's Ann Patchett spins the tale of her unexpected and deep friendship with Sooki Raphael who worked as a personal assistant to Tom Hanks: "Come on, Sooki," [Hanks] said, his voice gone grand. Who knew there was so much color? 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. Such a beautiful coat, I said to her. Whether all of this together was what helped, or whether she had made up her mind to see only the good, I couldnt say. She was Tom Hanks's assistant and there was work to do. For a time, the mother in this novel went to India to work for Mother Teresa. We were about to go on. You can be certain that she loves the job. But the only information I had was in the book. It had been more than two years since I met Sooki in a theater in Washington. And then one night, for reasons I cannot imagine, we decided to do it all again before we went to sleep. She hadnt seen it happen. Susan Joan "Sooki" Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. Accuracy and availability may vary. And she couldn't fly because the flights were canceled. Id spent two hours on a stage talking to Tom Hanks, and now I wanted to talk to Sooki. I cant just stay here forever.. 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. In case you havent read it, Uncommon Type is a very good book. But I think once youre here and see the setup youll understand. No events scheduled for January 20, 2023. Susan Joan Sooki Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. 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? Most recently, she had a solo exhibition of paintings at ROSEGALLERY called These Precious Days, just like Patchetts piece. I think about all the people who would want her to live with them. I cant tell you how grateful I am. Twenty-two sessions down and six to go. Look at what a success this time had been! . You two go and Ill have dinner ready by the time you get back. It was the practical solution, and so they left. And that was so sweet, but what it meant was I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving. PATCHETT: Every single thing was from scratch. We both agreed that if this was the brink of extinction, it was nice to be together. 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. may 21, 2019: Thank you for your concern about my medical procedure. Why shouldnt Tom Hanks write short stories? The wind was coming down the street like a train. Sometimes I had to get right in front of her to hear what she was saying. Before I can start writing a novel, I have to know how it ends. Now she would go home to her husband, her children, her grandchildren, her friends. What became of them? It was such a short trip it hardly counted as being gone. Could I say that I would like to come see her? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. You have to remember.. When it was over, I managed to make my way into the shower, perhaps the biggest single accomplishment of my life. No one will bother you there. The station happened to be next door to the airport, so everyone picked up their coolers and walked over. Twenty-five people died in Nashville the night of those tornadoes. 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. Im a good packer. She told me she had packed for good cheer, having had the reasonable expectation that times would be hard and cheer a necessity. Arent we talking about doing this together?, Oh, I said. I felt like someone was slamming me against a wall, not in anger but as a job. Can empty houses help solve homelessness? Only on weekdays and not on the Fourth of July, because apparently cancer knows to take weekends off and observe federal holidays. They arent going to give you her wallet, I said. And the moral of the story is that really is what I have been doing my whole life ever since. She owned beauty because she was beauty, and so she could express it on canvass, or in an email to a friend, or in a prayer to the sun.. How do you fly from Nashville to New York in a single-engine plane for a two-hour visit? What came out of her brush was a feast of colors and stories that she had kept in her heart for years. The actor who starred in the romantic movie You've Got Mail sat down and wrote me a letter in his California office in Santa Monica. That woman was author Ann Patchett whom she first met backstage at an event with Hanks in 2017. Or I should say the boundaries you think are there tend to fall away. Its funny, but all this time I was sure it was exactly that. What about the children who were left behind in that house she hated? Marriage also meant that I would listen if he tried to talk me out of it. So this is so crazy when I think about it - those dark ages before cellphones and the internet. Sooki and I shined our flashlights on the smooth bark of the trees that lay across the streets. You will not be called upon to be a good guest. Sooki was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and Patchett's husband Karl is a doctor with some serious hookups, so Patchett arranged for Sooki to come to his I knew how to do that. Once Im there for chemo, I will find a place where I wont be worried about being a good houseguest. We lived in that good world made up of yoga and chemo, the bookstore, cooking, painting, talking over dinner. Karl worked out the plans. The Hole Story: The Piddock Clam is a Born Architect. (Her 2004 book, Truth and Beauty, describes a seventeen-year friendship with the brilliant but demanding writer, Lucy Grealy, also a cancer victim.). The trick wasnt getting the mushrooms. Click here to dismiss this module permanently. We talked and then we didnt. But by the time Karl and Sooki left for the airport she was happy. She kept to herself, sleeping and painting, trying to wrestle it out. Its okay for us to be in the same room, Sooki said, a statement rather than a question. But have you seen my phone? I didnt need to hear about the first opinion to know what that meant. I cant tell you how appreciative I am. OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS BIOGRAPHY Past Exhibitions. Didnt he know? It wasnt that I could kill someone; it was that I could kill her. Sparky Walks the Neighborhood with Ann, Nashville 2020. For what? he asked. When I was very nearly at the end, I came to a beautiful lake, the kind youd see on a Japanese postcard, or my imagined picture of a Japanese postcard. 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. Everyone was wide awake, waiting up to see if the world was going to end. That night I tried to explain it to Karl. I dont drink. Or maybe it wasnt as bad as that. She had set up her life in the basement of our house, a place we never went. 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. 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. I should have planned better, she said. Why had I been so careful? She had moved in before the pandemic. But any story that starts will also end. While they were gone I tried to imagine it: the cancer back, the wallet gone, strangers. And we were living exactly in the moment. But of course the thing to do would be to go, wouldnt 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. Just you and Karl?, I thought about it for a minute, shook my head. The day after that she came upstairs wearing a sock hat. And you will always be in our hearts., And despite not having any formal artistic training, Raphael has done very well. I went to the grocery store and piled up the cart. 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. But thanks to Sooki, there was enough quiet in my house, in my own mind, that I could hear the river running underground, and I wasnt afraid. Sooki came to Nashville and stayed in one place, no more movie stars, no more trips to Morocco and Tan-Tan. Paintings by Sooki Raphael. I wrote again. He said that Sooki was good when they left. ANN PATCHETT: Aw, Mary Louise. Click, click, click. 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. You should have planned for the financial fallout of having pancreatic cancer twice?. Every time her mother turned around, Sooki was gone.. I dont want you to feel like you have to stay downstairs, I said. I asked her whether she had ever been to Nashville before, and she said yes, once, with Tom a long time ago. Afterward we sat up at the hotel and talked about this new coronavirus and whether the rest of her tour would be canceled. This was eight hours of hard labor. There are people here all the time. 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. KELLY: Well, it's really, really true, so it was a pleasure to get to say it to you instead of just pining to my book club about how I wish you had another book coming out. The second time they came because Rita was singing at the Grand Ole Opry. She even dedicated the front cover of her new book to Raphaels lovely painting of her dog. One night after wed finished our yoga and meditation, we were lying on our mats, staring up at the ceiling. When we turned out the light that night I felt myself buzzing with happiness: After nearly three months of lockdown, we were going to have an adventure. It was so much more beautiful, the overlaying color of every petal, the very light pink against the blackness. The paintings came from a landscape of dreams, pattern on pattern, impossible colors leaning into one another. In other essays, Patchett extols the enduring influence of John Updike, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth on her own writing; meditates on her friendship with Charlie Strobel, a priest in Nashville whom she calls a living saint; and tries to capture the flavor of her odd-couple relationship with her second husband, Karl, immortalized in the title essay of an earlier collection, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. As a medical doctor on staff at the Nashville hospital where Raphael was treated for advanced pancreatic cancer, he plays a crucial role in These Precious Days., Finally, theres that essay. I wouldnt. Could we talk about it sometime? Everything was lined upexcept Sooki didnt want to go. Just remember, Wednesday chemo left you very sad on Friday and Saturday, so it stands to reason that Thursday chemo will break your heart on Saturday and Sunday. We left early, taking into account the traffic that turned out to be eerily absent. Dont worry about it, Tavia said. 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. But when? Copyright 2022 Topanga New Times, Published by Design Like It Matters, Inc. Login to add posts to your read later list. 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." Go together. ", (SOUNDBITE OF STATIK SELEKTAH SONG, "TIME"). And I had never done anything like that before. Maybe I would find the fight in me, but I was never much of a fighter. Death, I said. feb. 14, 2020: PSJust to be clear, I ran all this by Karl first, who said, I favor having her here. (Very Karl.). How could I not have known? Theyd fallen on the mailboxes. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson lost their friend Sooki Raphael to pancreatic cancer earlier this year. I could see her doing it. I couldnt stay upright, a hangover from the last eight hours in which I had been quite memorably deboned. My friend tilted her head. She had transferred her life into brushwork, impossible colors overlapping, the composition precariously and perfectly balanced. Heres a universal truth: people are interested in helping Tom Hanks. Everything was tremendously present tense for Sooki. 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. Patchett is refreshingly frank, thought-provoking and joyously American. He told me he was going to take his grandsons to the river to go boating. The water in the creek a block away skimmed the bottom of the footbridge. Common sense and a book - that's all you need. 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 . This was what marriage must look like from the other side. Then one day she told me she was starting to shed. Don't have an account? . Or I would have forgotten about it, except that I got a call from Tom Hankss publicist a few weeks later, asking whether I would fly to Washington in October to interview the actor onstage as part of his book tour. All that was left was the wall around what had been their garden. The meeting led to Patchett asking Hanks on a "lark of the highest order" if he would narrate the audio version of her novel The Dutch House the ensuing . Donations can be made in her name to Pancan.org or Seasave.org/oceanofsooki. I was sorry for what Id done to him, by which I meant poisoning myself. I waited but nothing came next. I called the bookstore and let the staff know that Tom Hanks was on his way over. 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. They arrive daily in padded mailersnovels, memoirs, essays, historiesthings I never requested and in most cases will never get to. Later in the summer there was radiation, just to be safe. The tumor in her liver was shrinking. You know that you dont talk about yourself, right? We were living together. Are you serious? Do you ever miss being alone in your house? she asked me once. The producer of the audiobook sent me an article about Sooki from a 1978 issue of New York magazine. 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The truth was that we had no idea how long we were going to be together. Karl is a doctor, but Sooki had been treated at UCLA, Stanford, Duke, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Its like youre going home to the Ukraine for the first time in ten years, I said as we loaded up coolers and bags. It hadnt occurred to me that he might say yes. I asked her about her trip to Stanford for the biopsy, her flight to Nashville. It seemed we had just driven through the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus. I kept up with a great number of people, and I didnt know to what extent Id told Sookis story to Karl before, and if I had told him, I didnt know whether hed been listening, but now I had his full attention. This is how we arrive at the next chapter of the story. High-dose psilocybin produced large decreases in clinician- and self-rated measures of depressed mood and anxiety, along with increases in quality of life, life meaning, and optimism, and decreases in death anxiety. Use this bar to access information about the steps in your cancer journey. Shes married, I said. No one had ever been so welcome. Copyright 2023 SurvivorNet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. It doesn't say, go get a sack of Pepperidge Farm. 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. Because if I didnt know that Sooki had a husband, how much did she know about me, about us? And painting and painting. Most days I went to work at Parnassus for several hours, filling boxes. Facedown on a bath mat, I forced myself to take a breath. Because then, it won't just be me; it will be the entire world of people in my head. Im doing the best I can to feel beautiful in this new body.. I was grateful for both of those things. 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. And the only time I ever feel paranoid about death is when I'm in the middle of a novel because I don't want the novel to die. There was never so much color, spinning, building, reconfiguring, splitting apart. Raphael turned to art during a tumultuous time in her life and created works that will continue to be enjoyed long after her passing. There was a six-hour playlist that the Johns Hopkins team had put together that was meant to somehow guide you safely through the experience. Wednesdays chemo hit Sooki on Friday afternoon. Hanks, by way of reciprocation, agrees to How it happened is told in the title story ofThese Precious Days, Patchetts second collection of essays. Theres usually a guy working the light board and the mics who talks to me for a minute, though tonight the guy talking was Tom Hanks. Karl was sitting on the front porch and he called for me to come out. I get asked sometimes, who's your favorite author? Every morning before breakfast, we waved our hands in the air. Ann Patchett one night happened to read a short story by the actor Tom Hanks, surprised by its literary quality. 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. 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. . 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. The thought of Tom Hanks benefiting from my assistance struck me as funny, and then I forgot about it. When Ann Patchett decides to try medicinal hallucinogens to accompany her ailing friend on a spiritual journey (also to alleviate the pain caused by chemotherapy), he gives them space. Sooki Raphael, Mesa Tree, Topanga, from 'Vivid Series' 16 x 20 inches. I feel great. You all did a book event. I thought he should be angry at me. A friend who was well versed in the experience brought them over early in the morning on Memorial Day. I had cut a small bouquet of Lenten roses and put them on the night table. Was this what COVID-19 felt like? Small, flat islands of boiled wool were resolutely attached to her scalp by the 2percent of hair that had not fallen out. She said we could expect to be in the thick of things for an hour and a half, maybe two hours, with some residual effects for another three or four hours after that. To say that Patchett was impressed is an understatement. Her CA 19-9 was 170, down from 2,100 when she arrived in February. Everything was lit up bright, the table set. Welcome to the last book event on earth, I said when I walked onstage. A week later, Tom Hanks started recording The Dutch House at a studio in Los Angeles. I sent you another book that will show up eventually, a tiny French novel I love called The Lost Estate (Le grand meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier. Other doctors are quick to do him favors because hes done so many for them. 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. And it's so unexpected to come across a friendship like that at this point in life. There was a delicacy about her that was well-suited to baldness. I came back from Virginia and took Sooki to see the daffodils at the botanical garden, but we were too early. Where were you born? When her white count was too low to get treatment, she would run up and down the stairs at the hospital, down from the seventh floor to the first and back up again, over and over, and then get retested. They were talking like old friends. And the trial at UCLA was canceled because that's what COVID did. I was introduced to Tom Hankss editor, Tom Hankss agent, his publicist, his assistant, Tom Hanks himself. . How Much Is A Raphael Painting Worth? Ann. Its not too much. The bottom floor of the house is an apartment, separate entrance, no kitchen. The park was packed this morning. The trip came together quickly. But over time the idea drifted to the back burner. Karl has never once complained. 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Its a wonderful thing to be able to go back to something thats a couple of years old, see the flaws in the fullness of time, and then have the chance to make corrections and polish it up or in some cases, throw the whole thing out and write a better version., A second theme that emerges is the central role women have played in her life, from her sister, mother and grandmother to the nuns who presided over her K-12 education; the largely female staff of her Nashville bookstore, Parnassus Books; and classmates in college and grad school, including the late poet Lucy Grealy, whom she befriended at the Iowa Writers Workshop and later memorialized in Truth and Beauty., 'Reclamation':A Black descendent of Thomas Jefferson brings her ancestors out of the shadows, Not to say she gives short shrift to men. Are you breathing? She shook her head. I emailed him at work. It has to do with fearing death. 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