#Love

Love Letter to Life 01.17.2026 Backwash

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Anniversaries can amplify a backwash of emotions. I ask, “What are these feelings and where are they coming from?” Thoughts flow in, like fluid moving backward. Ah Hah! December 2019, sitting alone in the parking lot of the Cancer Center with the realization that I might have cancer flooded the car with tears. I was diagnosed two weeks later. Our tears flow through the body of every cancer patient, moving us from diagnosis to being here today. I am with you. You are not alone.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Watercolor 01.08.2026

Love Letter to Life 01.11.2026 Lean Into Love

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I am person who believes in the deep, abiding love within me, guiding my steps, moving me forward and, hopefully, contributing to others. Creative energy, expressed through my words, images, art, and actions, helps me to rise and meet the day. May you feel your heart of love and let it help. In this way, darkness lifts and a light of hope shines.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Metallic Painting 01.06.2026

Love Letter to Life 8.11.2025 PETSCAN DAY

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, This morning, I had a PetScan. It’s been 5 months. The report will be ready in 48-72 hours and I’ll go over it with my oncologist Thursday after Bloodwork at 9:00am. Anyone who is a cancer patient knows the wait between now and then feels like an eternity. So what does a girl do? Make Mac n’ Cheese, my go to comfort food. The veggies are there to make me “feel” healthy. I also have a pot of Green Chili Chicken Stew on the stove. Cook, Love and Live!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 06.20.2025 Beautiful Blossoms

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Connecting with people and being creative is what I value in my life. Feeling the love, smiling into eyes, meeting someone new and adding them to the “treasures”. I had fun drawing with Violet at the kitchen table. Had lunch with Michelle and Arlene at Terrain Cafe in Westport, CT where I once lived. Each day as I walk up the stairwell to the guest bedroom, I see Arlene’s incredible family portrait gallery, a series she is working on. My mind, body and spirit are happy.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

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 01.24.2025 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 11.24.2024 Lean Into Love

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, We are entering the season of holidays. I enjoy this time of year, the gatherings, festivities, displays of lights and big bouncing Santas and decorations beginning to show up everywhere. These are outward signs of people sharing their gratitude, joy, and hope. I am conscious that we bear the challenges of living. I am grateful that when we come together in community, we lighten the weight of our individual burdens. Spirit connection leads to love and love is greater than darkness. Lean into the light of love with me today.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

30″x22″ Painting and Collage 11.18.2024