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Love Letter to Life 11.12.2024 Setting the Table

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Getting ready for a Card Shark party, I placed Chinese Paper on plates. On each I wrote: Lean Into Love. Cooking, sharing my home with friends, arranging flowers and place settings, all give me joy. It sets the table for me to trust in divine order. The next day, while collaging, an envelope containing $1200 fell out of a magazine named, Breathe. I had “misplaced” this cash in September while in the stupor of Covid and moving. My go to action when something is lost: the Saint Anthony prayer. Thank You, Saint Anthony. Thank you, Creative Currency.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 11.11.2024 Remembrance

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, This FB message popped up yesterday to remind me that three years ago I underwent Stem Cell Transplant. It was the most difficult and extensive treatment I’ve had to date. Dr. Tees had challenging news: “The transplant didn’t work. The cancer is still there.” I am still here against all odds. There have been miracles and dark passages along this journey, too many to be told in this brief letter. But Life, you keep on giving me hope and energy and reasons to live. Here’s to You on this day of remembrance.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 11.10.2024 Build Curiosity

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, When I feel the “energy drainers” hit me, I know it’s time to meet the challenge with creativity. Ask the hard questions then fearlessly (or with trepidation) open up to answers through curiosity, resiliency, unearthing disbelief, falling to pieces and then building a new container that lets the light come through the cracks. Yesterday I sat in my home studio and let my spirit find its way through collage and watercolor. The Chinese papers with torn and faded edges gave way to blue-black watercolor tears. Music (thank you, Jon Batiste) soothed the deep question… Are You There, God? I heard, YES.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Home Studio Art Table 11.09.2024

Love Letter to Life 11.06.2024 Unsettled

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, The reality that half the people in the United States cannot see a woman of color become our president and would rather vote for a felon, perpetrator, and indecent man, deeply saddens and unsettles me. I’m calling it the way I see it. We can do better than this. Please help to change with fierce love.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 11.04.2024 Dixon Re-Do

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I had such a good time at the Dixon Studio Tour on Saturday, I returned on Sunday with Pam Platt, long-term artist friend. We went to Rift Gallery and artist studios, ate lunch on the porch of the Dixon Co-op, and watched the weather change. I love northern New Mexico, the land, its people, the cultures, the art communities. I love my body feeling “completely me” while on a hiatus from cancer treatments. Snowfall this morning. All good.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love letter to Life 11.02.2024 Dixon Studio Tour

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, An Autumn tradition is to head north to the Dixon Studio Tour. I enjoy seeing and supporting the work of artists. Each year I purchase a clay bowl from Miya. Her family fills it with green chili stew and gives everyone home-baked chocolate chip cookies with coffee. Generous and kind people. Many good artists showing their work. Suggestion: go for a drive on this beautiful day wherever you live and participate in supporting living artists.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 10.31.2024 BOO!!!

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Halloween brings childhood memories of making haunted houses, dressing up in costumes and consuming massive amounts of candy. Sugar high for weeks! Now the “making” and imagination takes place in the studio. I am finding my way into creating new work. Also taking steps to actualize a project dear to my heart: more to be revealed once it is well underway. I will contain and focus my energy for the months ahead and hope to see the “seeds” that are being planted in Autumn come to fruition in the Spring. Wishing you a happy day for Imagination to surprise you! Boo!!!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Campus Studio 10.30.2024