#prayers for andrea swift

[ofbetterbodies]

Anyway prayers for Andrea Swift talking to her rn

[pensandlakes-staywithtay]

#6 : Mothers

@taylorswift, hi! Hope you are enjoying your tour break and having a joyous holiday season!

So yeah, I feel like I'm talking to a void writing these, but more often than not, it's cathartic. In a way, it's like writing on a journal... named Taylor. I know you aren't reading these at all, but I'm just going to continue doing so cause it just brings peace to me. I don't even know why I ever stopped journaling, but thank you for somehow bringing this out of me.

Anyway, I just teared up a little watching that tiktok video you just commented on about a mom and her daughter. *playing The Best Day in the background as I'm writing this*. I cry every single time I listen to The Best Day. I don't ever know where I'd be if it weren't for my mom. I wish everyone has good mothers as I truly believe a great mother really does make a life. The stanza, "I’m thirteen now and don’t know how my friends could be so mean I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys And we drive and drive until we found a town far enough away And we talk and window shop till I’ve forgotten all their names.." just gets to me every single time. I miss doing that with my own mom -- just her driving me around our little city, with YOU blasting on the car stereo, stopping by icecream and coffee shops, thrift shopping, and laughing. Those are core memories I will always hold near my heart.

I just know that her daughter (the woman in the vid) will always hold unto those memories that they are making right now as she grows up. And it's crazy because I cannot even imagine how many mother-daughter relationships you are unknowingly a part of. You've been in mine the last 17 years. And my mom? She knows when I get into her car, that Taylor Swift is still the person playing in the background. And she jams along with me, tapping her little fingers on the steering wheel, while I just smile and try to hold my tears cause at 30, I still love driving around with her and getting to spend the day with her just doing the most simple things in life.

And on that note, send my thank you to your mom. Andrea. She gave birth and raised Taylor Alison Swift... who not only has talents beyond this universe, but whose heart is expansive as the Milky Way Galaxy. She deserves the world, and I truly and honestly do include her in my daily prayers. Thank you, Andrea -- for Taylor.

That's it for now, still have real life to get to.

Love you, Tay!

Forever and always,

VM <3

[wildeyedswift]

I love that we’re all praising and celebrating Taylors success of Lover and how amazing of an album it is, but I want to take a minute and praise Andrea. when I first heard Soon You’ll Get Better, I sobbed harder than ever. I can’t imagine someone who radiates so much love and happiness like Andrea does, going through something like this. she graciously and honorably puts her children’s success before herself. she makes so many of our dreams come true. if superwoman was real, she’d be Andrea Swift. her energy is contagious at shows. her strength and positivity is always showing. when I’m older, I hope to be at least half of the woman Andrea is. I’m sending endless love and prayers her way because quite truthfully, I couldn’t imagine this fandom without Andrea being a part of it all 💓

#taylor swift #taylurking #lover #soon youll get better #prayers for andrea swift #we love you andrea

[lunarockington]

Praying for Andrea Swift. We love you Mama Swift!

Take your time @taylorswift

We’ll stay.

#taylor swift #andrea #andreaswift #andrea swift #prayers for andrea swift #mama swift

[notbetty13]

The news about Mama Swift is heart breaking. I am sending all my love and prayers to Andrea and Taylor’s family. You are a tough woman. You got this mama swift. We love you mama swift and @taylorswift

#taylorswift #taylor swift #andrea swift #mama swift #prayers #soon youll be better #soon you’ll get better #love you #swift family #swifties #stay strong #we love you mama swift #weloveyoumamaswift #miss americana #miss americana documentary

[saylorrtwiftt]

I also have these shirts I made to support Mama Swift! They're available on my Etsy, www.etsy.com/shop/swiftiedesigns and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society!

#taylor nation #taylor swift #we love you mama swift #prayers for andrea

[tayslaymyheart]

Something I’ve been wondering about lately, is how Mama Swift is doing? You know, how her battle is going, if she’s doing well and doing okay.

She raised a pair of strong, incredible children so I know that she is a very strong woman herself, and that she’s got such a support system right there fighting this battle beside her in Taylor, Austin and Scott. I hope the universe finds my prayers and light and love out there and sends it right to her and the family 🙏❤️🌻

#thinking a lot about this stuff lately #taylor swift #sending my prayers and all my love #its such a tough and difficult thing to be going through #with times like these that we all find ourselves in #i sincerely and dearly hope that andrea is getting through this and keeping the fight going #🙏🙏🙏

[nowthatwedonttalk13]

I would like gives all our hopes and prayers to Andrea Swift and everyone in that family during this time. We are with you Taylor.

💕

#prayers #taylor swift #andrea swift

[djkoolkat13]

Taylor revealed that her mom Andrea has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I am praying for Andrea and the whole family God bless you.

#taylor swift #taylor nation #andrea swift #praying for andrea swift #prayers #soon you’ll get better

[swiftliv]

This was an amazing idea and makes my heart so soft. We love you so so so so much Andrea. ❤️ @taylorswift

You can donate here: https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/swiftmas-donation-to-the-american-cancer-society/tarac?utm_campaign=ocdonate&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=crowdrise

#taylor swift #taylurking #taylor nation #prayers for andrea #mama swift #american cancer society

[hedgehog-moss]

I saw your post about ecofeminism. Could you recommend some books or essays about animals? Like about anything wrt animals. Possibly something discursive or philosophical or even aesthetic. Does that make sense? I am really interested and would be grateful if you know of any reading material.

Paul Kingsnorth’s essay “In the Black Chamber” (on animal de-extinction, mostly)

The article “Do Elephants Have Souls?” in the New Atlantis

Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights

Later [swifts] gather higher in the sky, their calls now so attenuated by air and distance that to the ear they corrode into something that seems less than sound, to suspicions of dust and glass. And then, all at once, as if summoned by a call or a bell, they fall silent and rise higher and higher until they disappear from view. These ascents are called vesper flights, after the Latin vesper for evening. Vespers are evening devotional prayers, the last and most solemn of the day, and I have always thought “vesper flights” the most beautiful phrase, an ever-falling blue. 

J.B. MacKinnon’s The Once and Future World:  Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

Carl Safina’s Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (I’m currently reading this one and it reminded me of your ask—which you sent such a while ago, I’m so sorry! Halfway through this book I suddenly thought “oh, I think I got an anon at one point who might be interested in this?”)

Philip Cafaro’s essay “For a species’ right to exist” (arguing that we should establish animals’ legal right to exist and exploring the consequences of this idea)

Sooyong Park’s Great Soul of Siberia (I like how he’s hoping to see tigers but, in the meantime, observes the activities of a mouse with equal interest)

Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so simple and lies so far back, cephalopods are an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behavior. If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over. This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.

Diane Ackerman’s The Moon By Whale Light

On my to-read list: Peter Wohlleben’s The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things

J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine

John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (basically a cat-flavoured intro to philosophy)

Unlike dogs, cats have not become part-human. They [...] are other than us in the deepest levels of their being. Having entered the human world, they allow us to look beyond it. [...] Feline ethics is a kind of selfless egoism. Cats are egoists in that they care only for themselves and others they love. They are selfless in that they have no image of themselves they seek to preserve and augment. Cats live not by being selfish but by selflessly being themselves.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (ah, I keep recommending this one. It’s so sweet. I love snails.)

Jonathan Balcombe’s What A Fish Knows (here’s my favourite part!)

I did not enjoy Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’ The Hidden Life of Deer all that much, but I liked this observation:

A useful way to look at another life-form is to assume that whatever it may be doing—chewing bark, digging a tiny hole, wrapping itself in a leaf, sending up a sprout, turning its leaves to face the sunlight—it is trying to achieve a goal that you, in your way, would also want to achieve. In fact, you can be sure of that. The closer you are taxonomically to what you are looking at, the more likely you are to recognize what it’s goals might be, and the further you are, the less likely. Either way it’s fascinating.

[The sentiment expressed here is also explored at length in Andreas Weber’s Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science—but it is about the living world as a whole rather than specifically about animals]

#book recs

[foreverrraswiftie]

Let’s start a thread to show our love and support for Andrea and the rest of the Swift Family. Also sending prayers to Andrea! We love you Andrea and the rest of the Swift family 🙏🏻

@taylorswift

[auroras-blend]

Only Mine

Summary: Patience gives birth to Marilyn Winslow.

TW: infant death mention, labor, delivery, swearing

The bright lights blinded her eyes, causing her to squint and see spots as she screamed as her body was torn apart by the labors of childbirth. Labor happened suddenly but the birth despite being swift wasn’t happening fast enough. Jesus fucking Christ! Her head was slick with sweat and the smell of coppery blood churned her stomach.

“One more big push! One more big push Miss Winslow!” shouted the doctor, whose head hung clinically between her legs.

With one final scream to the high heavens, hoping the sounds of her suffering were reaching whoever needed to hear them, her cries were overshadowed by the high pitch screeching from the newborn who entered the cold cruel world. “And it’s a girl!” said the doctor, a cry of joy in his voice.

Patience didn’t even acknowledge her as she pressed her head back against the pillow in relief and exhaustion. It’s over. Her entire body ached and pulsed at the trauma it just endured. The brief few minutes of separation were bliss, overjoyed that her body was finally free of the last remnants of the monster who caused her unbearable agony and tragedy. But it was all too brief. “Here she is,” the nurse smiled and cooed while she cradled the bundle of blankets, “All healthy. All toes and fingers accounted for, mama.”

She tried to ignore the sick feeling at being called mama as she reluctantly took the baby into her arms and rested her on her chest. She didn't want to look at her, to feel a thing. Apathy would make it easier, easier to give her up, but she had decided not to with the threat of eternal damnation and loneliness being too great. Finally, Patience took in her features. Small little nose. Mine. Blonde curls. His. Deep down, she knew it would be, as much as she hoped that it would be Salvatore's. Her luck always seemed to run against her and she wondered if it would again. It took a moment for the whimpering infant to open her eyes and in the time in between, she prayed they weren’t his. Please. Please. And God must have heard her prayer because when her daughter opened her eyes, Patience saw her own in there.

And for once, she cried in bliss that she was granted this one small victory. That she could look at her daughter’s face and see her own, see her eyes. That small trait allowed her to feel motherly affection for her little girl at that moment. Thank you. Patience had never seen what was adorable about babies, she likened them to frogs when they were newborns, but her daughter seemed genuinely beautiful, or at least that's what her hormones told her. “What’s her name?”

Patience ignored him as she traced her baby’s nose. Her daughter’s nose twitched and she let out a small sneeze, “Oh bless you.”

The infant's eyes weighed heavily, her mouth forming an “O” as she yawned tiredly. She gave off something between a scoff and a laugh at how tired she was. I did all the work. The child was soft and pleasant, already content with just resting against her mother and made no demands at the moment. "You're so small," she whispered.

Like me. Her son had nearly ripped her apart coming out, inheriting his size from the father, but her daughter was tiny. She heard "five pounds", though no matter what she felt the same pain when she entered the world. Still, her baby's stature made Patience feel an overwhelming urge to protect her from everything and everyone she had seen and experienced. You won't go through what I did. The natural wave of protectiveness that women felt towards one another helped her feel and bond. Her nose stung at the fear she felt for her, not of her.

The baby shifted slightly in her swaddle before settling as dead weight, pressing against her chest. It was slightly uncomfortable and Patience wanted to move her into a better position but she didn’t want to risk the silence and peace, so she begrudgingly let her sleep. As her daughter's breathing evened out, she began reciting in her head, she’s mine. Only mine. She’s mine. Only mine. I’m her mother and father. She’s mine. Only mine. “Miss? Her name?”

There would be no trace of him. Her daughter’s name would be so defiantly Patience that no one would mistake her as anyone else’s child but hers. Everything about her second child made it different. So much of her son had been his father but nearly everything about her daughter belonged to her. A brief bout of misery settled in her at the thought of Andrea, a trickle of still grieving tears leaving the corners of her eyes. Some would mistake it for a mother's natural joy after holding her child for the first time; it was a feat that she was even able to speak but she was determined to mark her child as hers.

“Marilyn,” she said softly, “It was my mother’s name. Marilyn Flora Winslow.”

“Beautiful name,” cooed the nurse, “And the father?”

“No name,” she said curtly and didn’t even tear her eyes off of her daughter to see the judgmental look she was being given. “Just me and her. Me and Marilyn.”

Her words spoke of a new reality as she and Marilyn were left alone. That’s how it’ll be forever. The residents of Summerfield had already cast her out as a pariah, not that she gave a shit about their opinions. Part of her felt guilty that she was this child’s mother, that this child who had committed no crime had the worst parent in the world. The other was resentful that she was once again forced to have a child, a child with a monster no less. But there was a softer feeling, another side of her that was relieved she wouldn’t be alone after everything that had happened to her and everything she had done; and perhaps that’s why, for a brief second, she let herself smile.

#i cried when i wrote this #i don't think she could ever truly love marilyn #but there was a bond through their gender and physical similarities #marilyn winslow #patience winslow #once upon a dream

[ts1989fanatic]

Letter to Taylor Swift

I wanted to say something not just for myself but for swifties everywhere, we all miss you on SM and on Tumblr particularly.

I along with with most other swifties realize that you have a lot going on in your life that we have no idea about, we can only speculate on what those things might be.

Andrea’s health springs to top of mind in any speculation, you and your family have our love and support in these trying times and those who believe in prayer are praying for Andrea’s recovery.

The new album is something true swifties have been hoping for, for a very long time. An acoustic album that showcases all of you storytelling ability in all it’s perfection.

What I don’t think any of us expected was the complete change In direction that we got with folklore. This album and the radical departure from any past album, was/is an absolutely stunning change in direction and simply showed the critics and GP what we have known for years.

Taylor Swift can be successful in any genre she Damn well wants too, I will not go into any detail here regarding folklore I already covered that in a first listen review already posted.

The only thing missing from completing the experience of a new @taylorswift album and especially this album is not being able to share this experience with you.

We have no idea if you are Taylurking or not I hope that you are because your own creativity in folklore, has inspired your swifties too create some stunning edits and that’s just within the first few days.

I can’t wait to see what they come up with in the weeks ahead and after the surprising way that the album was released it will be interesting to see how the success of the album develops.

I don’t think the critics are expecting folklore to be a commercial success based on most of the reviews I read, however I believe that those self same critics might be in for a surprise.

As for myself if folklore is not Grammy AOTY material I have no clue what would be.

Just know that come back or not we will be here supporting you as always, doesn’t mean we don’t miss you take whatever time you need we will be here if or when you return.

[reputallison13]

13 things I learned after watching Miss Americana💙

1. Taylor is the cutest person in the world and I will always love and protect her no matter what😍🥺

2. Just because it looks like your life is perfect aka you’re Taylor Alison Swift she is still human and goes through heartbreaking and terrible things in life.

3. Stop living for approval from others. I’m such a people pleaser and always try to live for people’s approval and that is not a healthy way of living. We just need to live for ourselves and what makes us happy. We also shouldn’t care about impressing or proving ourselves to anyone but the people who mean the most to us.

4. You always have to stand up for your beliefs and what you believe is right. Seeing Taylor speak up about politics makes me so happy, she’s using her fame for good. She had people telling her to stay out of it but just by watching the film and seeing how emotional she got you can tell this is very important to her. No matter what you just need to focus on your beliefs and continue fighting. I love Only The Young because the young is the future of our country and we can stand up and fight for our beliefs💙

5. Taylor my role model and friend has suffered and been through some of the same things I’ve been through. Taylor talking about how fucking impossible the standards of beauty are is very relatable. Everyone is beautiful no matter what size they are. I’m so proud of her.

6. Seeing Taylor cry broke my heart. Hearing the person who I’ve spent half of my life loving and supporting crying because she says people have fallen out of love with her killed me. I will never stop loving and cheering her on.😭💔

7. Watching that moment when the man who should not be named ruined my baby’s moment just brought me back to watching it the first time on tv and tears filled my eyes. I still don’t understand what kind of sick person would do that to a 17 year old girl! Hearing her say she thought people were booing me KILLED me! I never want Taylor to feel anything but love and happiness.

8. Taylor being brave and raw and talking about her sexual assault case was very moving and powerful. No one will ever understand what she went through. I’m so fucking proud of her.

9. Taylor saying she’s so happy makes my heart so happy! Seeing her so in love and genuinely happy is the best thing ever, because she deserves all of the happiness in the world. The CIWYW video melted my heart she’s so in love and it’s what she deserves. She found her one true love and Prince Charming who loves her for her. Seeing her run off stage and straight into his arms was so sweet! She feels safe and at home with him. I love them together and wish them all of the love and happiness.

10. CATS- seeing Benjamin, Olivia, and Meredith be the stars of the show was the best thing ever. The itty bitty kitty committee is purrfect. My favorite cat pat was either Olivia in the backpack just wondering around or her sitting at the table eating dinner with Abigail and Taylor like she owns the place, because we all know she does.😹😻

11. One of my favorite parts of the documentary is seeing Taylor do what she loves best and creating music. I loved seeing behind the scenes in the studio. You just see how talented she is. She really comes up with the lyrics on the spot. I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it forever Taylor Alison Swift is a lyrical genius! Seeing the songs start out how they did and then seeing them come together and listen to them now is incredible! I will never get over seeing ME! come to life👏🏼🎉🥰🦄

12. Andrea Swift is the star of the show! This woman is the sweetest and most genuine woman I have ever met as well as her daughter. Seeing her in this film made me so happy. You can tell that she is Taylor’s number one fan! I remember meeting her at the secret session and her being the sweetest lady ever and giving me the biggest hug and saying she was glad to see me. Also fun fact I fed Kitty a chicken nugget at the secret session, she’s such a sweetheart. The part where they talked about her cancer hit me hard. My dad passed away from cancer 3 years ago and it was the worst thing I have ever had to go through and don’t wish that on anyone. Hearing Taylor day the “c word” and imagining what their family is going through breaks my heart. Andrea and her family are so strong and I hate that they are going through this terrible and difficult time. I’m sending good thoughts, positive vibes, and prayers to the Swift family🙏🏼💗✨

13. I have a few favorite quotes from this film but my favorite and the one I probably relate to the most is “I want to have a sharp pen, and a thin skin, and an open heart” this quote is so relatable because you CAN have all of those things. I just love this woman more than she will ever know and cannot be more proud of her!😘

this documentary is a masterpiece and I LOVE it! Thank you for being so real and open and sharing your life with us. You and Lana did a phenomenal job so thank you for this and just for being a part of my life for so many years. I honestly don’t know where I would be without you and your music. I’m so proud of you and I love and miss you so much @taylorswift 💘

*plays Miss Americana again*

[delicatswifttie]

I stand by Mama Swift aka Andrea

Forever and always

Sending my prayers💗