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Ode to Martha:DIY

13 Dec

I had put down my drawing pen years ago, couldn’t even find my scissors.

Glue was a four letter word I didn’t practice much, and let’s even not talk about dinner.

I gravitated to your channel and somehow ended up reading your books.

Magazines made it even shinier and HD compelled me to look.

I wrote you an email or two, only to receive a generic reply:

I’m sorry but Martha receives thousands of letters and yours is just another try.

I paused when you went on your “sabbatical” and still tracked down the MS brand.

Saw it one day in Michael’s and I wandered into Martha land.

Stencils, stamps, pens, and paper. Markers, boxes, and such.

Beautiful typography, packaging, and graphic work the things people don’t pay attention to as much.

I recognize gifts that are intrinsic, that doesn’t belong to a school.

A gift that’s sent from above, and the world is always your muse.

Mrs. Stewart has helped me understand,what it means to be multi-talented.

Good morning, afternoon, or night, my name is Kendra and I’m not cursed, I am gifted.

Through jams and spices, baking pies and cakes, or building a mahogany shelf.

I’m grateful and deeply inspired by people, like Martha, who are eager to do-it-yourself.

=)

Greatness…

8 Dec

GREAT NESS /noun/ 1.  the state, quality, or condition of being great.  2.  larger than others of the same kind. 

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.  BUT, he went on to become the GREATEST basketball player our world has ever witnessed. 

Tim Allen spent two years in prison for cocaine dealing before turning his life around and becoming an actor.

Jennifer Hudson was voted off of American Idol and became an Academy Award winning actress and vocal powerhouse.

Steve Carell was a mailman and now delivers laughter in every project he’s apart of.

Whether their talent was or is respected, their greatness was inevitable.  Regardless of the odd jobs, the path that may have seemed like a dead end, there was always a greater DESTINY waiting around the corner! 

I will never allow any misfortune, any obstacle, any opinion breathe toxic fumes into my dreams.  If these people could become who they are and even effect our lives through their evolution, then I’m certain that my journey is not at its end. I will continue to persevere.

Kendra Jordan began making cakes December of 2009 to cope through a broken heart.  After surgery on her birthday, enduring bouts of depression, almost giving up on her God-given talents…she apprehensively, applied to an upcoming cake show at the suggestion of a friend.  With no hope in being selected, they loved her, and she was chosen. 

And then the story takes an intermission…Kendra Jordan was ”Box Truck”ed…carried off to some cake wasteland….but she finds a footing through cake batter and cracked fondant.  Ascends to the ground, brushes off her chef coat, and keeps going.  She’s coming back like Jordan, wearing his #23 Chicago Bulls jersey.  Like Hudson, walking to the podium to receive her Oscar.  Like Carell, turning in his 2 weeks notice at his mailroom for Hollywood.  Like Allen, getting a second chance at living life the right way.

Life, it’s what you make it.   No matter what, you have to leave this world.  So before you go, you might as well live your life with no regrets.  Live with passion and strive for GREATNESS.

Kendra.

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