I have created a new category in honor of Martha. Here is another reason god doesn't exist. (There seem to be too many signs of godlessness these days!) Sure she is not the nicest boss in the world, but her contribution to the American society is enormously underestimated.
Taste is everything.
Taste is what guides us through the dark chaotic jumble of pathways, many of which leading to deadends. It is a gift passed down in a chain of DNA unbroken for millions of years. Of course the problem arises when we feel the need to decide who the authoriy should be, but Martha is a rare figure who united people of different socio-economic classes to come to a consensus about what to eat for dinner and how to paint easter eggs.
I'm not saying that her taste is the best the human has to offer, but she collectively raised the standard of American households, and that is huge. More than anything, she urged her fans to pay attention, take a step further, and to be proud. She could do this because she had so much idiosyncrasy and incongruency about her, which made her so fake that she was so real. But for that to play out to this degree is a tragedy of a Shakespearian scale.
These beautiful French Tulips were a gift for my opening from Agnes and Dan, who are opening the Village Tea Room in New Paltz. They've got taste!
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