Describe something you learned in high school. I learned that sometimes teachers get test answers wrong, and to catch those rare events was an ego trip. It’s also where they educated me, initiating me into the adult world, where I would often have wrong answers, or no answer at all. The lesson was not thatContinue reading “something I learned in high school”
Author Archives: Neil Durso
If today a teacher/aid vents to you…
If today a teacher/aid vents to you… Listen, hear, validate. They’re easy targets to criticize, yet go back and do that job, day after day. And some days they shine just enough that young, tender and terrified hearts believe in them. That’s a blinding brightness. Neil D. 2025-04-11
How ‘America First’ Ends
Isolationism bad, engagement good – unless it’s the OrangeHair and Putin
How enormous I, and you, are
What occurs to me more and more often is how enormous I am. How much power I have in my own little world. How much potential I have that I myself do not even recognize and I am not aware of. More and more, it astounds me how enormous my power is. My youngest sisterContinue reading “How enormous I, and you, are”
Trump-hater Challenge (1)
For your own mental health, try this.
Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil
My Sweet and All-Merciful Lover, By Your freely-given grace that has seen me through all things, and always will, I will pour out what You have filled my heart with, in the staggering certainty of faith. When the anxious, fearful, and ashamed Neil rises up in me today, as he surely will, fill me withContinue reading “Neil’s Emmanuel Prayer for Neil”