Music Always Works Even When Nothing Else Does, Especially When Nothing Else Does

Aleppo, Syria

Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe and listens to music in his destroyed bedroom in the formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood

Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images


The boy asked the old man what peace is like and he replied, "How should I know?"

- Vietnam Era cartoon I saw in "Playboy"

What do you know.  I became the old man and the war never stopped.