about the election. “Keep calm, and hand out some Halloween candy!”The queer icon posted her latest TikTok Tuesday, a nearly 10-minute video in which she talks about her Halloween plans and favorite memories from gay people’s favorite holiday. Stay woke with our briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!One of Trump’s most vociferous critics–and favorite targets–one might wonder how Rosie is keeping herself together just six days before arguably the most volatile election of our lifetime.
Answer? She seems to be practicing a form of radical acceptance and surrendering to the present moment. “On a scale of 10 being ‘can’t think of anything else and may need additional education,’ I’m like at a 7. That’s alright.
I can handle a 7,” Rosie said. “I’m trying not to watch so much of the news now.”“I’m trying to recite that amazing prayer you do in AA about the wisdom to do the difference between the things you can and cannot change. If you voted, if you donated if you could, whatever you did, participated, and now, you’ve got a week left to worry.
Then it’s in someone else’s hands.”One of the most popular invocations, the Serenity Prayer actually isn’t found in the Bible. It was written by Protestant theologian Richard Niebuhr in the early 1930s, and is widely used across society. Alcohol Anonymous first adopted the prayer in 1941.The most commonly cited version is below.
Its message revolves around the power of letting go.God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the otherAs Rosie mentions, there’s only so much one person in a democracy (at least for now) of 345 million people can accomplish. Once you mark your ballot, the decision is out of your hands–literally!With early voting well underway, millions of Americans have already cast their ballots. For months, Trump has been trying to set the expectation
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