Patricia Markov
When did she realize her life was planned?
When her father died the day before her 19th birthday.
(At age 11, while waiting for a plane with her father, she had counted 18 birds on a line. Which meant her father would die when she was 18) He died in 1961, the day before her 19th birthday
At 18 she studied design at UCLA with only $25, but a classmate knew a divorcee with 3 kids who needed a babysitter job close to campus that provided room and board.
She couldn’t afford books, read them in the library, but not long enough to understand them.
She lived on air, no money for extra food or clothes, she was in the best shape of her life. Walked everywhere.
Her Astrologer Ed Steinbrecher had a dream in 1970 that Los Angeles would fall into the sea. He told the psychiatrists that he was working with and their clients to move to Santa Fe. That is when the movie stars discovered Santa Fe. The art class she and Ed shared was taught by Eleanor Neale Coppola who married Frances Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather.
Ed nurtured her inner light and mentored her, introducing her to his inner circles. He wrote The Inner Guide Meditation.
At age 27 a man she barely met, asked her “Where is the (UCLA) library?” she said, "You idiot, you are standing next to it." He asked her to go to the beach. The next morning he arrived while she was still in bed. She said, “Now you know what I really look like.” The next day he brought his clock radio and never moved out.
4 months later, she got laid off from work, he quit his job, they moved to Santa Fe, and got married.
They had 3 children, 5 grandchildren, she worked 25 years in state government, got a special education teaching license, and subbed for 15 years. At Santa Fe public schools she doodled during free time when students were completing their assignments. During Covid 19 2020-2021, she was laid off from Santa Fe Public schools, joined art teacher Michael Long’s art zoom class.
In 2021 she broke two different hips, went through physiotherapy with nothing to do but revise her bucket list. She cut up most of her old drawings and turned them into collages. She rewrote her journals.
Her children and grandchildren created an online portfolio for her to share her legacy.