She Knows How to Smile

For a moment, after the Super Bowl, the masses were moaning because Taylor Swift’s boyfriend of the moment had done pretty good for the popular Super Bowl while she was jumping and waving and smiling and screaming - with a few friends - up in the private see through box. Could he hear this? Could he see her? Did seeing her give him more energy to get out there and do his thing? My gosh, Taylor had just returned from a quick show in California just in time to watch her newest beau do his stuff.

I have to be cautious because I’m a Taylor - not a Taylor first name, but a Taylor last name and there are bunches of Taylors all over the US and Europe. I don’t think there are that many who play football US style. Please don’t get it mixed up with soccer, praise God; my husband is addicted and involved with Soccer in one of the best places in the world for soccer - Uruguay (the first cup ever was won by Uruguay decades ago. No team Uruguay player has done it again. But Uruguay is right across the Rio de La Plata where Argentina dominates soccer, and on the other side Uruguay is a small, squashed circle of land that survives with fantastic vineyards and great crops and great poets, that, once outside Montevideo, is nothing but fields and cattle and sheep and giant monster machines that take up more than half the small roads. But it is simple and beautiful. So much so the Chinese have put their big steps into Uruguay - first by their cheap cars about the time I began my life in Uruguay - 1986 - it tossed aside the world of Mercedes etc. And autos were hugely expensive, and few had them. Traffic was doable in the big city. And empty on the long roads that one could take to get to the wonderful towns where those who worked the fields and with the animals (sheep and cows) had an easy and beautiful life.

There isn’t much space on the roads of Uruguay, although giant trucks transport on them all day and night. And you can see hundreds of milk cows and fat hairy sheep in the giant farms. When I first came to Uruguay, I wanted a horse. My then husband was an addict for horse racing. So, I was introduced to a winner at the annual fair where competition is hot and heavy. And he and his wife invited me to their estancia - way out in the country that is so beautiful it’s hard to go inside. I found a small criollo pony who I could ride (my life up to then was pretty much filled with horses, polo ponies, cowboy wrangler horses), My purchase was a fat Uruguayan style named Pancho. Well, in the long run, as we built our racing stable, which was quite victorious, Pancho became the pony that walked beside the fancy race horses to keep them calm. When one of our building stable elegant racehorses (yep, we had a bunch of victories) needed to calm down as the horses trotted and jumped and acted up on the way to the track, Pancho was to calm them down. And hence I was not allowed to bother Pancho since she was working her heart out. Oh well.

Back to Taylor Swift. I don’t know if she was singing behind those glass booths for Las Vegas as she watched Feb 11 2024 - I was running through the Miami airport trying to get home to Uruguay and couldn’t find a single place to watch the Super Bowl. But nothing messed up Taylor that day because had all the skills of getting what she wanted when she wanted and for the time she wanted. Bless her for that.  Imagine being a billionaire at age at 34. She could probably buy the arena where her new romance had to work a bit as a football star (?).

For sure, Taylor Swift is the modern version of beauty and skills and smiles and cheers. The charge and the routine are Taylor Swift not only is a superstar with an incredible singing voice, and a skill to draw people to her, did she have enough funds to get a soda or milkshake with two straws? Her superstar that day had to be on the field. Not up in the booth. And she even had one of his giant jackets - because he was a giant who had to have the xxxx large size for himself. But now he has turned it over to this beautiful Barbie Doll who makes him look better than he did a few days before.  But she has everything in her hands, the whole world in her arms. Everything that any young girl would dream about, a word and it is hers. We don’t hear about her relationship to the chunk of a football player, but she, more than anybody has in her career as an outstanding singer who everyone loves, and she has won over a rather funky, tough humorous and talented American football player. 

I remember in high school; the pretty blonde was usually romancing the superstar player - the quarterback? And with an arm of flowers and a crown on the young star’s head, would walk through something or others as the audience outside applaud and the popular football player star who probably would have a future somewhere maybe even Alabama.

I remember when I was about 16-17 and was forced to go to an all-girl school in Memphis, though we lived way out in the country called Germantown, and when I got a car, I could sneak up to Germantown High School to watch my boyfriend who was a country football star. Of course, my parents didn’t know this. And I knew his parents were extremely poor (this was the country high school) and I didn’t fit with the wealthy group in Memphis. That’s when I began to love football. And began to think I had hope in my life to have fun with the guys and cheer from the bleachers the quarterback, for a while, until he went off the military because that, I think, was a way he could earn funds so he could stay alive in the future. Have you heard of him anymore? I haven’t. But Taylor Swift continues to explode and surprise and sing amazingly kinds of grace, so her funds and future have not trickled down a dot. She is beloved and beautiful and knows how to entertain the whole world in a tiny glass, if she wants to.

Once one is up front on fame and constantly in the news, things don’t roll so sweet. And I feel sorry for her because it’s the American Way. You can’t be so famous as to not have attacks about your own private life, liberty, and love. Travis Kelce when I last heard was still courting Ms. Swift who has the right to go out with whom she wants to entertain, be he a football player, an African American singer, an Indian Muslim, whatever she wants to do. The public needs to cut off their comments. It’s her life and you nor hi have any right to comment or credit or crash her love life She earns the billions because 99 percent of the public adores her, enjoys er, envies her and will give up a bunch of dollars just to see her and sing along with her in one of her shows. She doesn’t kick away her fans. She adores them as they adore her. She is young and beautiful. But I’ll wonder if she will take Mr. Kelce home to Mother. He obviously earns a whopper wad of money. And they seem to laugh and enjoy each other. But only God knows. Does she go to church? I hope so.

I guess Taylor has her own Barbie now. She seems to be the ideal model for that. Why does anyone care what race she is? She didn’t organize her birth. Her parents got together and had her. What she does on earth not only with all her money but with all the people she entertains and loves it is HER right and HER future. Would everyone else just shut up and go run around the gym or something? It’s not your privilege or choice. God bless you, Ms. Swift.

~ Rev

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