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Love Letter to Life 06.18.2025 Family Treasures

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Arlene’s home burst with “treasures” yesterday. My daughter, Tracy, visited. Arlene’s painting is from a photo taken the day Tracy and I met in 2021, a reunion after 50 years of separation. I was receiving chemotherapy and about to have Stem Cell Transplant for Lymphoma. The “little treasures” are the children of my niece, Kira, and her husband Rich. Meet Noah, DJ, Carolina, and Manny. Our family’s “adoption” stories are too many to be told here but are full of love and blessings. Happy to be “home”.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 05.11.2025 Happy Mother’s Day!

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Happy Me! I was reunited with my daughter in 2020 after she was released for adoption in 1968. After 50 years of searching, I put my DNA on Ancestry.com. Tracy found me the on the same day I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lymphoma. Mother love surged through me and my life force has defied the odds. I am here, healthy, and celebrating our love. Another gift: my mother got to meet Tracy and have a relationship before Mom died in Aug 2024. To all mother’s and families, miracles happen. Keep the faith and love one another. Feeling lucky!
Your’s Truly, Pamela Rose

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 01.28.2025 Hand and Heart

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Happy to be held by a hand and heart of beautiful flowers while visiting with Esther in AZ. We laughed and walked and talked and “went wild” the way good friends hold one another with love. I’m excited that she will be setting up an “art table” to begin a Vision Board collage project. That’s what I’ll be doing today in my Creative Expressions class. Here we go into 2025 with love, creativity, imagination, and community!
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 01.14.2025 5 Years

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Five years ago today I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Large Cell Lymphoma. That evening, I received an email through Ancestry.com from my daughter who I had released for adoption 50 years earlier. We connected the next day and now have a strong, loving relationship. A miracle. I have been through Stem Cell Replacement, Immunotherapy, clinical trials and ongoing Chemotherapy/cancer drugs until Sep 2024 when my body said, “I need a break”. My bloodwork was normal yesterday. I feel the best I’ve felt in 5 years. I live a day at a time. Miracles are happening every day. Thank you Life.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose