#loveletters

Love Letter to Life 09.02.2025 School’s In

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I gave time and space for solitude and self-care over the weekend. It is important to support all aspects of my Being: Body, Mind, Spirit < My Soul’s Journey. Reread 2024/25 of the Love Letters while preparing documents for editing. A friend is reading 2018/19 and said, ” there is so much good.” We all need support and encouragement. I know I do. Today I have Contemporary Figure Painting class and look forward to being amongst artists, creating and sharing our work.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage and Watercolor 08/2025

Love Letter to Life 08.28.2025 Tear It Up

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, After hours of deliberating whether or not to stay in a Contemporary Figurative Painting class, a fellow artist said, “Forget about all the academic work you are seeing here and do your own thing. Open up a magazine, tear it up, and make your figures”. Thank you Roberto. This is why I participate with other artists at the Santa Fe Community College. I am reminded to use my creative voice and “tear it up”! Healthy and happy.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage, pencil and watercolor 08.27.2025

Love Letter to Life 08.24.2025 Home Studio

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I am doing a series of collages using maps I collected during my summer road trip. Here is Pennsylvania in progress. I will submit this to my Contemporary Figurative Projects class. It shows how the “figure” is elemental in mapping one’s life, past and present, while offering a glance towards the future: travel, writing, creating art, being in beauty. The caption in the lower center reads: “there she is ____ walking on air ____ she is”.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 08.21.2025 Rose 1930 – 2024

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, A year ago, my mother Rose, passed from this world. She is still a force of energy making visitations in the form of bees, butterflies and “bling”. She loved all things that sparkled. Rose had a deep hope to meet her first grandchild and my daughter, Tracy, who was released at birth for adoption in 1968. This dream came true in 2021 after Tracy and I reunited through Ancestry. Rosie did not quit before the miracle. Mom you are loved and missed by many. Let Rose be an inspiration.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Photo of Tracy and Rose

Love Letter to Life 08.19.2025 First Book, First Day

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, My life is a day at a time, a season at a time, a daily page of people, places and things. And there are seasonal events that appear such as, First Day of School. I happily take a page out of last year’s Love Letters and return to campus today. I have the first draft of the “Love Letters to Life” book in my hands. There is work to be done in order for it to be ready for the world but I am smiling to see the pages of my life in print. Let’s live a new one!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 07.30.2025 In Progress

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, A goal of compiling my love letters into a book is in progress. I hope the “Letters” serve as an inspiration for cancer patients, their families, health workers, support teams, and recovery community. Love Letter to Life started when I had a health crisis in 2018 and was later diagnosed in 2020 with Stage 4 Diffusive Large B Cell Lymphoma, an aggressive cancer. I have lived through several treatments and expiration dates. My journey is reflected in my love letters. There is so much more to live. I move forward with love.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Life 06.19 2025 Miles of Smiles

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, My niece, Kelsey, and her kids, Max and Violet, visited yesterday. I became Violet’s first collector with the purchase of her canvas painting. Another artist blooms in our family! Later I met my daughter, Tracy, at Marble Beach, and had the best Ginger Ice Cream cone served by Lily and Helen. Then took a walk and talk of 8000 steps on the boardwalk. Sun has finally made an appearance in CT. Heat wave of love!
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 05.06.2025 Stormy Weather

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, We have had days of storm fronts moving through New Mexico with hail, rain, wind, flooding, and cold temps. Woke to 35 degrees, rain, and gray sky. The precipitation is needed to prevent fires and drought so we are grateful. Feels like a stay-under-the-covers day!. But I have to rally, get out of bed, and go to last workshop, Creative Expressions. Energy Portraits illustrate the weather and my wet attitude. Suit up and show up.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Watercolor and Ink on Yupo Paper 05.02.2025