Thanksgiving—for all the ‘nevers’ in my life

gone hungry.

I have never gone without water, either for consumption or cleaning or cooking.

I have never had to seek safety in a bomb shelter or a safe room.

In my six decades, not once have I been treated differently due to my skin color.

I have never been tortured, intentionally humiliated, or cast out.

I never got picked last on the playground.

The poverty my father knew as a boy was never in my chi…