An Episode of Sparrows

We went to Newtown last night and ventured to a bookshop that Ryan had visited before, Berkelouw Books. It is down a side lane off King St.  It is the ultimate bookstore, it's as though a good friend who knows your tastes in books exactly has arrived there just before you and set up all the kinds of books they know you would love, without all the rubbish and shelves full of Mills and Boon. We came away with a few treasures, one of which was a collection of poems by the Sufi poet Rumi. I'm really enjoying his words, they are vibrant and relevant even though they were penned in the 12th Century.

The above is an illustration I worked on today based on this passage:


I have a thirsty fish in me

That can never find enough

Of what it's thirsty for

Show me the way to the ocean

Break these half-measures

These small containers