Claude Monet Sunflowers painting

Claude Monet Sunflowers paintingJohannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring paintingJohannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
was becoming clear that the rains would fail. Lines of bony cattle migrated across the landscape, searching for a drink. _Love is Water_, someone had written in whitewash on the brick wall of a scooter factory. On the road they met other families heading south with their lives bundled up on the backs of dying donkeys, and these, too, were heading hopefully towards water. "But not bloody salt water," Mirza Saeed shouted at the Titlipur pilgrims. "And not to see it divide itself in two! They want to stay alive, but you crazies want to die." Vultures herded together by the roadside and watched the pilgrims pass.
Mirza Saeed spent the first weeks of the pilgrimage to the Arabian Sea in a state of permanent, hysterical agitation. Most of the walking was done in the mornings and late afternoons, and at these times Saeed would often leap out of his station wagon to plead with his dying wife. "Come to your senses, Mishu. You're a sick woman. Come and lie down at least, let me press your feet a while." But she refused, and her mother shooed him away. "See, Saeed