One the girl taped to the foot of her bed read, "I'm going to slash your throat with a butcher knife". Instead of reacting negatively to that as she tucked in the child the mother learned to say instead, "Yes, I see that.
"I see that I am veering toward destruction, / instead of the unity of form and feeling; / I see a dimly shining instrument / opening the soft meat of our throats," he writes in "Self-Portrait as the Red Princess".
I saw that video speaking of lynching me instead of ever letting me sign….
Tracing my finger down to the women's quad, I saw that for finishing our race -- instead of U-turning and taking the broken oar back to the dock -- we'd earned our team... two points.
During the 12 months I spent as a State Department political adviser in northern Afghanistan, I was dismayed to see that instead of building on Afghanistan's traditional, labor-intensive agricultural and construction practices, the United States is using many of its aid dollars to transform this fragile agrarian society into a consumer-oriented, mechanized, fossil-fuel-based economy.
So I was happy to see that instead of concluding that women need to learn to play rough like men, John Tierney argues that maybe the corporate structure could use some tweaking.
When I should be disciplining her for some infraction, instead, I see that vulnerable baby girl in my arms on that quiet winter afternoon.
She states in a text which I have seen that instead of blaming her, since she had nothing to do with the shooting, shouldn't the people who sold the guns take some blame?
How about just some scrambled eggs instead?" I could see that they were starving, because they practically keeled over at this offer.
Instead, I began to see that I was the problem.
But it won't be long, I believe, before society sees that instead of being weighed down with a criminal record, the climate campaigners should be given a medal for their outstanding bravery and public service.
