It is early morning and the shops are just opening. A shop owner walks out and spreads a bag of grain on the ground. The pigeons descend by the flock, one after the other. The wide pedestrian way fills with pigeons joining the resident cats.
Through the swirling pigeons, two children appear. It is hard to tell if they are scaring up the pigeons intentionally or just as a by-product of their meanderings. The children become more visible, now that they are halfway through the swirling pigeons.
A boy and a girl, a year apart, both dressed for grade school, chase the pigeons and then lose interest in them. Walking parallel to them, but staying out of the flocks of pigeons, is a man carrying two small book packs.
This scene is by Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. A father walking kids to school like this could be any city around the world. It reminds us how much people around the world, despite the divisions, have in common.
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