Abu Taha, a portly, smiling man with two young children, lives a couple of blocks from our house in Baghdad. I arrived here to cover the war for ABC News last July, and one of the few pleasures I have found is sitting with him on his flat roof, where he keeps pigeons in a series of coops.

a lovely aricle
starting with a glimpse of serenity before confronting the madness
a taste of life
the sweet and the sour