Episode 9: We Gather Stones

Show Notes

Folklore

• Folklore Era
  • Color: silver
  • Years: 2020-2022
  • Stories and characters of her own creation
  • “Rest”
  • Quarantine
    • Written at the start of quarantine 
    • Recorded in different parts of the country
    • Put together at Long Pond Studios in upstate New York
    • Played together for the first time September of 2020 and became the Long Pond Sessions
    • Label did not know she had an album to put out until week before she released it
  • Comfort
• Our Eras:
  • When did we first listen to this album
  • How we each defined “Folklore”
    • Paige – Covid made guilty pleasures not guilty any more… Tay was the beginning of that for me.
    • Megan- Didn’t listen to it much when it first came out, was so different from previous albums and needed the familiar Taylor to get through the beginning of the pandemic 
• Folklore Verses- What’s a line on Folklore that describes your relationship/understanding of God
  • @Megan invisible string
    • Time, curious time/Gave me no compasses, gave me no signs/Were there clues I didn’t see?/And isn’t it just so pretty to think/All along there was some/Invisible string
• Tying you to me?
  • @Paige mirrorball – I’m a mirrorball / I’ll show you every version of yourself / Tonight
  • To hear more about Reba Riley’s vision of God as a disco ball, check out our Folklore episode from season one: https://pastorswifties.com/2023/11/23/episode-9-go-with-grace/

• The Stories
  • @Megan
    • August/peace/the lakes- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

@Paige 

• Invisible string – Ecclesiastes – also the non biblical idea that everything happens for a reason 
• Exile – the exile… esp gave so many signs
• Mad woman – she bears and Elijah
• Cardigan and Betty: God welcoming back those who had strayed? Look for scripture and perhaps in Ezra and Nehemiah.
  • and said,“My God, I’m too ashamed to lift up my face to you. Our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown to the heavens. “From the days of our ancestors to this day, we’ve been deep in guilt. On account of our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case. “But now, for a brief while the Lord our God has shown favor in leaving us survivors and in giving us a stake in his holy place. Our God cheered us and revived us for a little while in our slavery.
  • https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra.9.6,Ezra.9.7,Ezra.9.8&version=CEB

• Where is God?- Where did we miss God in the Jesus season?
• What would God’s track 5 story be?
  • Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
    • My Tears Ricochet
      • Song about greed, betrayal, about someone that hurt you from the inside. Villain who used to be your best friend. (From Long Pond Sessions documentary)
• Folklore Verses- What’s a line on Folklore that describes God/the People during this era?

@Megan my tears ricochet

• We gather stones, never knowing what they’ll mean/Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring
• Look at how my tears ricochet/And I can go anywhere I want/Anywhere I want, just not home
• @J Paige  seven Passed down like folk songs / Our love lasts so long
  • Also – I think your house is haunted / Your dad is always mad and that must be why
• What’s Next?
  • Evermore
• Sunday Question
  • Folklore God/peopleStory
  • Track Five God Story
  • Folklore Verse(s)
• Thank you! 
• Swift Psalm
  • Song- august
  • Psalm- psalm 13:1-2, 5-6