#artistlivingwithcancer

Love Letter to Life 02.11.2025 Normal Range

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Blood results are in normal range and I am no longer anemic. This is a benchmark. I’ve been anemic since November 2018. Cancer patients live with multiple tests and scans and the question of what is next in terms of treatment. March 10th is next PetScan. I ate Rice Pudding with Whipped Cream to celebrate “normal”.
I affirm: “Don’t be afraid to spread your wings over the world”.
I am grateful for the artists Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste who show us how brilliantly to live our dreams.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Vision Board 2025

Love Letter to Life 02.09.2025 Waking Anew

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, How is it that I can go to sleep convinced I cannot meet my goals and then wake up thinking, “You can do this”. My thoughts are changeable especially at different hours of the day. After a decent night of sleep, the challenges of life and living with cancer diminish. Believing in my heart’s desires feel within reach. I remember to trust, believe, perceive and receive. Everything I need is here for me through Universal Delivery. And my hands and feet go into action!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 02.07.2025 New Materials

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, New set of Japanese watercolors and paintbrushes arrived while I was driving through the northern New Mexico mountains in Angel Fire. Today I begin Major Projects class with artist, Brie Ruais, and work with the new materials and emerging ideas. My daily practice of creativity connects me to the greater whole of life, within me and all around me. Happy to be alive and an artist/writer.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

A detail from my 2025 Vision Board

Love Letter to Life 02.05.25 Vision Board

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, This Vision Board is my “Runway” into 2025, visualizing and affirming my goals and dreams. Highly recommend to everyone the creative process and power of “visioning”. I had so much delight making it in Creative Expressions class and satisfaction propping it up at home where I can see both sides. Get out your magazines, paint, color markers, scissors, glue stick, cardboard, and have at it!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 02.04.2025 New Experiences.

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I am having new experiences with people, places and things. I acknowledge that each day is a new, never lived before or to be lived again. I affirm being present and entering into the day with an open mind and heart, curious eyes and ears, and willing hands and feet to go where inspiration and intuition lead. This way of living allows my spirit to guide me. That puts a smile in and on me. Here I go into the “adventure” with gratitude.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Tempera Painting with Graphite Drawing

Love Letter to Life 01.20.2025 Waking Waves

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Woke to winter waving through the bedroom window. Snow lines the limbs of trees, adobe walls, earth blanketed, mountains obscured by dense clouds. 20 degrees. I wake slowly. My senses begin a tick-off list: hear sounds of heat coming from forced-water baseboards, my eyes detect the darkness or light, my skin feels the warmth of soft bedding. Murmuring thoughts signal the body to move upright and I find my way into the kitchen to push the coffee pot button. Thank you Life for lifting me into this new day and all it holds.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Graphite Energy Drawing 01.29.2025

Love Letter to Life 01.24.2025 Girls Go Wild

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, After 2024, a childhood friend, Esther Kelbaugh, and I decided to meet up in Phoenix and have a Girls Go Wild weekend. This included a Sting concert, but unfortunately, he is under the weather (please send him healing vides, friends) so concert is postponed until June. I am still getting on a plane today and the girls will celebrate life. Each day is a gift and friends are a blessing. Another plus: leaving an arctic 16 degrees for a sunny 66. Love warms the day!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 01.20.2025 Despair & Hope

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, “Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” These words from Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 speech in Washington DC. More questions than answers rise out of the state of my heart on this day. There is much to do in order to turn darkness to light, despair to hope. Be the peace. Take the high road. Lean into love and be an agent of change. Please join me on this march for freedom.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Ink Painting on Yupo Paper

Love Letter to Life 01.18.2025 Mark-Making

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, All those mark-makings interest me. I see the graphite drawings and paintings as geological imprints and maps of a human being that happens to be me. Keeps my interest in returning to the studio in order to get a glimpse of what’s up. Is that odd? At least I can say, it keeps me out of trouble.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose