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
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
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
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
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
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
Dear Life, Thank you for all the positive vibes. My body responds with health and my heart with love. We are connected in Spirit while we travel this journey called Life.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose
Ink on Yupo Paper
Dear Life, Slept in. Deep and restful. Woke to a light covering of snow in Santa Fe. I feel grateful to have a warm and quiet home, peaceful and loving relationships, strong and resilient body, creative and thriving life after five years of living with cancer. Thank You Higher Power and Community.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose
Graphite Drawing, Energy Portrait 01.10.2025
Dear Life, Friends are being displaced due to fires and toxic air in LA. Thousands of people and animals are on the move. The ravages of climate disturbances and war are disrupting so many lives throughout the world. I feel the unrest. I make art and pray. I help how and where I can. I remember to be kind to everyone.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose
Graphite Drawing and Tempera Painting 1.09.2025
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