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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

Love Letter to Life 01.16.2025 Connected

| Pamela Markoya

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

Love Letter to Life 01.12.2025 Gratitude

| Pamela Markoya

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

Love Letter to Life 01.10.2025 Be Kind

| Pamela Markoya

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

Love Letter to Life 01.09.2025 Energy Art

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I quietly pray while wildfires rage in California. My love goes out to all beings under the siege of fire, ash, smoke and displacement.
Here are yesterday’s Energy Portraits.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Graphite Drawing and Tempera Painting 01.08.2025

Love Letter to Life 01.08.2025 Mark-Making

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I appreciate the Graphite Energy Portraits as a daily check-in. I see them as I do x-rays and serving the same purpose: an imprint of my-self in a moment in time. I hang the drawings in my studio and after a week can see patterns, intensities, the behaviors of the marks. A musician does this with notes, a writer with words, a dancer with movements. We all do this all day making all our different marks. How are you making your marks today?
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Graphite Drawing 01.07.2025