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Love Letter to Life 11.16.2025 Hope

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, As I prayed for guidance at daybreak, my eyes fell upon the word HOPE, 8 feet away on a bookshelf in my bedroom. I got up and retrieved the volume: “The Book of Hope, A Survival Guide for Trying Times” by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams, 2021.
“Hope is contagious. Your actions will inspire others. It is my sincere desire that this book will help you find solace in a time of anguish, direction in a time of uncertainty, courage in a time of fear. We invite you to join us on this journey toward hope.”
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 10.07.2025

Love Letter to Life 11.13.2025 Evolve

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Woke before sunrise. Bloodwork yesterday was overall good but showed a “slight inflammation of the liver”. No answer as to why. So I will have bloodwork again in a month. Not an emergency but my brain sounded alarms. I have the tools to quiet my mind after years of practice: prayer and meditation. And if it is dark, turn the light on. The monsters leave the room. I gratefully saw the soft pink beauty of sunrise.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage and Paint 11.10.2025

Love Letter to Life 11.11.2025 Remember

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I worked with Virginia Dwan, the legendary art dealer and visionary, on her personal project documenting graves in military cemeteries throughout the United States: Flowers, 100 photographs on 144 pages in a foldout book. The only text is Pete Seeger’s question, “Where have all the flowers gone?”
Today I honor Virginia and all who rest in peace.
Your Truly, Pamela Rose

Love Letter to Love 11.05.2025 What’s Shaken’

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, “Keep your head up, shoulders back, and lipstick on”. A wise woman told me this long ago. And I add, keep a pretty dress ready. You never know what’s gonna shake out from above.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage and Paint 11.01.2025

Love Letter to Life 11.04.25 Web of Life

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, What are the connections in my life? Past and Present? Am I living a purposeful and meaningful life?
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PS Get Out and Vote

Collage and Paint 11.1.2025

Love Letter to Life 10.31.2025 I Can

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, I showed my studio and work to an artist friend yesterday, saying, “The project, INSIDE-OUT, is scary and brave”. Making transfers of my x-rays onto canvas, painting, drawing and collaging images that represent my body; it is certainly a different wheelhouse for me. Only now, a year out from 4 years of cancer treatments, can I begin to process this. Thankfully I can.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage and Painting 10.28.2025

Love Letter to Life 10.26.2025 Under the Skin

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, Sometimes we have to look closer to see something, visually and emotionally. I used tracing paper to draw the muscular system of the face. Then painted a facial abstraction and placed it under the tracing. My project INSIDE-OUT continues to explore my body and the narrative, living and healing from the inside out. Each day I discover something new. There are a lot of muscular highways in my head!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Drawing and Painting 18″x24″ 10.23.25

Love Letter to Life 10.19.2025 The Heart Remembers

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, In 2021, after 6 months of chemo, a cancer biopsy was done between my heart and lung. The doctor had difficulty and said, “I will try one more time. I don’t want to hit your heart because it will bleed out. But if I hit the lung, we can repair and inflate it”. The third attempt was successful. No bleeding and lungs breathing. The biopsy confirmed Lymphoma cells had spread. More chemotherapy, stem cell replacement, clinical trial, more chemo. Today I am healthy, heart beating, still breathing, living gratefully a day at a time.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Heart Painting 24″x’18” 10.17.25

Love letter to Life 10.17.25 Keep Going

| Pamela Markoya

Dear Life, My art and spiritual practices help message “Keep Going”. This is especially true when “Life gets lifey”. We all need strength when the road feels bumpy. For weeks, my interior life has been percolating. What changes are coming? I change from the inside-out. I am working on my project, Inside-Out. Keep going and see where it leads. I hope this helps anyone who is percolating. We are not alone.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Collage 10.15.2025