No, its wonderful having her here.. Had I thought it through, I never would have had the nerve to ask in the first place. Curiosity is the rock upon which fiction is built.". She helps the poor like Dorothy Day.. She once caught bats for the City of New York. Ann Patchett and Tom Hanks' assistant? Ken would come later. The phone hadnt been run over, nothing in the wallet was missing. Karl was sitting on the front porch and he called for me to come out. Just a guess. Sooki and I kept up a sporadic email exchange once the audiobook was done. If I knew nothing about Sooki before she arrived, I knew very little more three weeks later when we were spending all of our days together. But everyone showed up, all four hundred of them packed in side by side, every last chair in the ballroom occupied. In the titular essay, Patchett reflects on her serendipitous friendship with Sooki Raphael. When they called, she asked them all the right questions. She repeated her gratitude and I waved it away. While we pored over every detail of dinner (Sooki revealed herself to be a great cook), we didnt talk about her family. I asked her about her trip to Stanford for the biopsy, her flight to Nashville. It was just the three of us now, Sooki and Karl and me. Sooki was coming as a patient, and more than a little of the work was going to fall to him. In life, time runs together in its sameness, but in fiction time is condensedone action springboards into another, greater action. Telephone poles were down, and electrical wires snaked across the asphalt. She was right here, Karl said. And so when I looked up dressing, you know, it says, start with a loaf of day-old bread and make cubes. Just you and Karl?, I thought about it for a minute, shook my head. A plane? Still, wasnt it worth mentioning? Hell make sure you get everything you need. Dear gave way to Dearest. What came out of her brush was a feast of colors and stories that she had kept in her heart for years. Do you ever miss being alone in your house? she asked me once. I understand the impulse but I also think weve transcended it. Every time her mother turned around, Sooki was gone.. This was what marriage must look like from the other side. Once Im there for chemo, I will find a place where I wont be worried about being a good houseguest. But when? 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. My reading on this flight is a book called Radical Remission. There she was in the passenger seat, a shy person with a quiet voice. I was having trouble with my own volume now. That shed always been so careful not to cross any lines, not to advance herself through connections shed made through him. We both agreed that if this was the brink of extinction, it was nice to be together. It made her crazy not to be there to help. No events scheduled for January 22, 2023. Why had I been so careful? They were talking like old friends. It was her only chance of getting back safely anytime soon. Sister Nena shook her head. I was leaving for Virginia. A hundred thousand people in this country had already died of the coronavirus. View Sooki Raphael's business profile as TH Assistant at Playtone. In the story, Patchett writes, "Pay attention, I told myself. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Or maybe it wasnt as bad as that. It was Memorial Day, after all. A forest sprung up in the middle of the street. In making the journey to Oz, she had found the strength and clarity she needed to go home again. Shell die, Karl said. "The press release is about to go out." I sat there and watched her read, waiting for something more, something that explained it. We saw two movies with my sister. Dionne Warwick came in with her son. I was no longer sick or well. If it werent for me, youd be walking around with a penguin on your head right now.. I was also greatly occupied by the bookstore. After a while she drifted up to the kitchen, taking a stab at the half of banana I had abandoned. Why couldnt she see that? I would be in and out, other people would spend the night, which would be fine, plenty of room for everyone. All the neighborhood dogs began to howl and bark. She had their protection, and that knowledge had opened up so much time in the day. We have come to the point in this story when time changes. No one had ever been so welcome. 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. I reminded him that in choosing to work, he ran the risk of killing our houseguest. ROSEGALLERY is presenting These Precious Days, a solo exhibition of paintings by Sooki Raphael, on view from 10 April until 10 May, 2021. PATCHETT: It really is. She brought her paintings upstairs to show us: a person who was too shy to say good night most nights was happy for us to see her work. 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. 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. I was starting to understand that what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words. In her tribute to Raphael, Wilson pointed to her friend as proof that it is never too late to explore your creative passions. Yeah. Arent we talking about doing this together?, Oh, I said. The producer of the audiobook sent me an article about Sooki from a 1978 issue of New York magazine. 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Once she gets here and sees the way things are, shell be fine.. Plans were made for Sooki to come to Nashville. The money behind Ron DeSantiss populist faade, What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death. Ill send photos from San Diego. PATCHETT: Yeah. 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. Sooki Raphael: These Precious Days RoseGallery Santa Monica | California | USA Apr 10,2021 - May 10,2021. She was a zombie in the original Dawn of the Dead. One morning Sooki had coffee with Sister Nena and me before she went to a yoga class across the street from the restaurant we went to for breakfast. You dont think this is crazy?, I didnt say that, but I know youre trying to help Sooki.. On this summer night in 2017, I picked up a collection called Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks. She was doing every part of her job that could be done over email or by phone. Winter came without a word. 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. We went back and forth. My childhood best friend was staying with us while this discussion was going on. I had a purpose to serve. This wasnt out of the ordinary for me, as Im sure it wasnt for her. Shed called me from outside the airport. But also undeniable are Patchetts generosity of spirit, compassion and gift for friendship. So it really was what they said, a definitive spiritual experience? Shed seen people. 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. These months of exercise would save me. This wasnt the first time Id invited someone we didnt know to live with us. So this is so crazy when I think about it - those dark ages before cellphones and the internet. How do you fly from Nashville to New York in a single-engine plane for a two-hour visit? I couldnt. 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. As Sparky stopped and sniffed, I offered up Sookis recurrence as a story to tell, not a problem to solve. Patchett's long and twisting memoir/essay "These Precious Days" relates how Patchett's professional connection . I just would worry too much about being a bad friend. He uses the library table to spread out his papers. Raphael found great beauty during a tumultuous time of her life and shared that beauty with others through her artwork. It has to do with fearing death. Had I known she had a husband, might I have assumed that she was taken care of and so not followed the story as closely? We talked and then we didnt. She was the bat squad. 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. They both had the coronavirus. Information; Artists; Auctions; Exhibitions; Magazine; Services; Market Analysis . Curiosity is the rock upon which fiction is built. To the best of my knowledge, she never quit. I need to go home, she said, looking at the pictures of herself she had asked me to take with her cell phone. 68 books15.8k followers Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. Come on, Sooki, he said, his voice gone grand. 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. 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. She kept to herself, sleeping and painting, trying to wrestle it out. Audience questions arrived on index cards, were read aloud and sorted through. That was how I saw the coronavirusas something that could kill Sooki. I was going to tell Karl what was happening but he was looking at his own phone. 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. There are so many things I understand now, she said. Haldane: a great public servant, much maligned, If you spent a day at Action Park you took your life in your hands, Finally: Diamond and Silk are releasing a book, Where are the scents of yesterday? That night there was still no power, and so we lit candles. Click here to dismiss this module permanently. 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. It was just me in the house. We were sitting at the bar at California Pizza Kitchen at four oclock in the afternoon. In fact we were so exactly in the middle of history that we had no way of understanding what we were seeing. Not everyone is like this. I will pick you up very late on Tuesday and take you to see Johanna on Wednesday. Well, Sooki said when we were finished. Karl had started flying in Mississippi when he was ten. When she came upstairs ready to go she was wearing the black-velvet coat with the peonies on it. The truth was that we had no idea how long we were going to be together. Lets try the car.. On her last night we sat in my office after yoga and I asked her every last question I could think ofwhen did she work on the documentary about George Romero, and when did she marry Ken? She was supposed to wear a complicated Velcro gel pack (unfortunately called a penguin cap) on her head on the days she had chemo. And the moral of the story is that really is what I have been doing my whole life ever since. I emailed him at work. Just think, I would say to her on Wednesdays. I thought some nights my back would snap. I was the one who talked you out of the fifty pounds of dry ice.. 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 what the cancers given me. I could see her doing it. 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. 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. It was the last hour of a long day. . To say that Patchett was impressed is an understatement. But I think once youre here and see the setup youll understand. 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. I Dont Want to Move On; I Do Want To Move Forward Doug Wendt On Being A Caregiver and Tragically Losing His Wife to Ovarian Cancer, Were never gonna move on, I dont even think I want to move on, but I do want to move forward, Doug said. It was my intention to vomit, but the idea of getting past Sooki was overwhelming. Theyd fallen on the mailboxes. 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. I pushed my face into his shoulder, apologizing. In her last two and a half years, Sooki started painting. 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.. These are the precious days of the title. They clearly didnt understand she intended to walk, though knowing Sooki, she probably could have carried it. Her best friends lost everything in that fire. The problem wasnt how the trip would be organized, but what it meantpandemic, cancer, ninety-four. She told me how lovely it had been to lay down the burden of her own vigilance. But she rarely stayed upstairs. The assistant was a tiny woman wearing a fitted black-velvet evening coat embroidered with saucer-size peonies. Sooki was making dinner. There are suddenly people everywhere. They were flying out at the end of May. 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. The power was out for four days, those rarest of days in Nashville when it was neither too hot nor too cold. 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. I want to meet Tom Hanks, she said. And this is how Sooki became part of something bigger than herself, pure art destined to express the beauty and mystery of the world that she could see more than most of us can. Sooki arrived in Nashville on Sunday, February 23, just after Kate left. A Celebration of Life will take place in Topanga, CA on August 21, 2021. I met her briefly . 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. There was a little kitchen in the dorm, and I got a book, and I made Thanksgiving dinner. They were waving. 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. As the warning sirens kicked in at four in the morning, only Sooki was awake. Whenever I came to an intersection I would look to the right, the left, then up and down.. Heres a universal truth: people are interested in helping Tom Hanks. Have a wonderful day today. But this was right, and we would all be fine. It seemed we had just driven through the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year after we met. I can fly you up, Karl offered, once her mother was safely home. Marriage meant that he would hear out what on the surface may have appeared to be a spectacularly stupid idea. Like, I really understand that I'm going to die, but I don't want the whole novel to be wiped out. I had put a notebook and a pen beside me on the floor before we started. He recommends books and asks for recommendations. We were still at the beginning then. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett reviewed. But I didnt forget. Now she would go home to her husband, her children, her grandchildren, her friends. Kundalini is nothing if not an exercise in breath, and as it turned out, breath was what Sooki was craving. I met Sooki Raphael for a few minutes in Washington, D.C., around three years ago, and maybe even more than that now. 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. It had been happening for a while. The sky had turned a tenacious gray, the rain sheeting sideways. She had transferred her life into brushwork, impossible colors overlapping, the composition precariously and perfectly balanced. "They have it," she said. I dont have any questions, I whispered in the darkness. apr. 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. Ive got to take care of my nun, I told him. Solo exhibition of paintings by Sooki Raphael on view at ROSEGALLERY. Its funny, but all this time I was sure it was exactly that. She was looking to get into a clinical trial for recurrent pancreatic cancer and not finding one that had room or matched her cancer. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson lost their friend Sooki Raphael to pancreatic cancer earlier this year. You think youre getting chemo three Wednesdays a month but really its a test to measure the effectiveness of kundalini yoga and kohlrabi. I had signed up for a farm-share box, and every week we were overwhelmed with pounds of mysterious vegetables. The very fact of her existence in our house kept me on track. Karls cousin was visiting from New Mexico, sleeping in the other guest room. We have some picnic tables outside the police station, the officer said. 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. Nothing. My only prescription is for vitamin D. If Id had a coat of arms, it would have read quality of life, life meaning, optimism. I would leave again on Sunday for Virginia. 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. My cancer markerCA 19-9is nonspecific to pancreatic cancer (it can indicate other inflammation in the body), but its an indicator and is supposed to be at 35 U/L or less. I desperately wanted to vomit, to turn back time. After her first round of cancer, while she recovered from the Whipple and endured the FOLFIRINOX, she started to paint like someone who had never stopped. And we were. 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. We had been in some scrapes before. We were early, they were late. This chemo wasnt the nightmare FOLFIRINOX had been. These Precious Days is still on view at the gallery until May 10. She was going to be stuck in a chair all day, which was why it was necessary to do it again at night when she got home. Some people stay for months. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. My little dog Rose, now ten years gone, came out to meet me, running giant circles of exuberance in the soft grass. We went home and baked a spectacular cake that was especially well suited to travel. Did my character want to be a nun? 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. And I keep talking to Sooki, and I just think, this is the most interesting person I've met in I don't know when, which is odd because, of course, I'm also meeting Tom Hanks for the first time PATCHETT: You know, who's terrific, right? And the trial at UCLA was canceled because that's what COVID did. may 21, 2019: Thank you for your concern about my medical procedure. On the first Sunday in May, in the late afternoon, a storm kicked up, not expected but not a surprise either. As lockdown continues, the two women practice kundalini yoga and meditation twice a day. More:Amazon releases its best books of 2021 list: 'An embarrassment of riches'. 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. Everyone was wide awake, waiting up to see if the world was going to end. The day after that she came upstairs wearing a sock hat. Sookis two sisters, one in Connecticut and one in Massachusetts, could meet them there, a family reunion at the airport. What Sooki is, Tom wrote to me in an email later, is all that is good in the world.. This was eight hours of hard labor. KELLY: Wow. They had turned off the heat PATCHETT: Or they turned it down to whatever level would keep the pipes from freezing. Im a vegetarian. I tried to enjoy it but it was difficult to breathe. As I got ready to send the details of my second opinion, I was already looking to the third opinion and rethinking the story. 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. It's clear this was hard to write about when you turned to actually try to capture Sooki in an essay. Ill get there but its no small task to try and sum this up.). No, Im fine. There was a sitting room downstairs, the library, her bedroom and bathroom. We waited. He got me a can of ginger ale and I tried to eat half a banana. I had warned Sooki about all of this before she arrived. The most important human qualities were being applied to this form. She shook her head, scrolling. 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. We kept a common grocery list on the kitchen counter. Tom and Rita were back from Australia. Hanks, by way of reciprocation, agrees to How it happened is told in the title story ofThese Precious Days, Patchetts second collection of essays. And that was so sweet, but what it meant was I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving. I have to know where Im going, otherwise I spend my days walking in circles. I surely would go ahead with the dates I had scheduled in the States. My death. Remember in the future not to make assumptions. When it becomes difficult for Sooki to find a hospital to deliver the clinical trial and chemo she needs, Patchett and VanDevender discover that it can be done at the hospital in their home town, Nashville. I was convinced it wouldnt show up and embarked on a full-scale exploratory mission into holistic healing, prayer, juicing, yoga, meditation, sound waves, and magnetic magic (this last one, highly recommended by a friend, but in a clinic run by a reality-tv star). She didnt know. In the basement apartment jokingly called the VanDevender Home for Wayward Girls Sooki does what shes wanted to do all her life: paint. Everything was lit up bright, the table set. This is what its like to write a novel: I come up with a shred of an idea. Id come up with the answer months ago. So what are the deadlines, days needed, etc? The cell-phone case also served as her wallet, containing her credit cards, cash, IDs, insurance cardseverything important. While I was in Virginia, a series of tornadoes hit Nashville. As I was agreeing, there she was again. Are you not sorry you did it? I felt like it took me two minutes to put that much together. In a previous interview with SurvivorNet, Caleb Farley talked about his mothers battle with breast cancer and how heopted out of his position as a cornerbackfor the Virginia Tech Hokies due to COVID-19 concerns. And so I couldn't call my mom. I leaned over to look at her phone. Like, I really understand that I'm going to die, but I don't want the whole novel to be wiped out. This one is good for your liver. This will help all your internal organs. You are beautiful. I would love to stay with you for my first night or two in Nashvilleit would be wonderful to spend some time with you. I would tell you we were idiots, but thats true only in retrospect. 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