Catching the winged moment as it flies is, I believe, a true hello and goodbye all in one -- a wholehearted embrace of the way life is showing up for us now, even as we acknowledge and yes, even wave at its leaving.
What we are saying is that animals have no rights that we need to respect but animals are obligated to respect human lives and property even as we acknowledge they possess absolutely no moral or ethical basis for such an acknowledgement.
Thus, in Pine Barrens we are allowed to feel empathy for Paulie and Christopher even as we laugh at them, while in Long Term Parking we weep for Adriana's bleak end even as we acknowledge its inevitability.
It was his prayer, he added, that the people of Virginia would "unite in the mission we share, even as we acknowledge respectfully differences among us".
Even as we acknowledge that each country is different, we need to speak honestly about the principles that we believe in, with friend and foe alike.
The economic and psychological drive provided by those tasks cannot be underestimated, even as we acknowledge the depth of the tragedy.
That is something that we, a Muslim and an atheist, have learned from our friendship – even as we acknowledge our differences and disagreements.
We will make sure mental health professionals know their options for reporting threats of violence, even as we acknowledge that someone with a mental illness is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.
No one wants a sport whose biggest star is demonstrably not a nice guy, even while we acknowledge that the biggest sports stars rarely achieve without a single-minded determination bordering on the psychopathic.
Even as we acknowledge his difficulties—he was, as Sam Anderson wrote in New York, in 2010, "a stereotypical mid-century wealthy imperial Brit a bullhorn of prejudice and entitlement whose gaffes could be almost touchingly clueless"—we want, it seems, for him to fit a kinder, gentler formula.
