I am fortunate:<\/p>\n
\u2022 North Korean missiles are not flying over my head.
\n\u2022 I do not have three feet of water in my house.
\n\u2022 I know where my wife and son and daughter are.
\n\u2022 My house is not in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
\n\u2022 I did not risk my life to vote in the Kenya presidential election.
\n\u2022 My livelihood does not depend on mining coal or working for Best Buy.
\n\u2022 I am mostly immune to the allure of wealth and celebrity.
\n\u2022 I am not a black man being black in a white neighborhood or being black when a cop is looking for someone.
\n\u2022 I am not a Venezuelan woman, a Saudi woman, a Mormon woman or any other woman treated as if her life was worth half that of a man.
\n\u2022 Medicare for Me is only months away.
\n\u2022 I have never had to explain or hide my sexual and gender identity.
\n\u2022 To unwind, I can have a martini. I am not dependent on oxycodone or heroin.
\n\u2022 I have a good chance of outliving the Trump presidency.
\n\u2022 I still have my mental faculties.
\n\u2022 I can sit here and deal in the trivial as others struggle to survive.
\n\u2022 I have some sense of the important, the falsely important, and the unimportant.
\n\u2022 I can give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am fortunate: \u2022 North Korean missiles are not flying over my head. \u2022 I do not have three feet of water in my house. \u2022 I know where my wife and son and daughter are. \u2022 My house is … Continue reading