Inktober 2017 Day 1

It's #inktober2017 and this is the first among the 31 pen drawing responses to 31 different poems I will create through this month. This piece is a response to Kahlil Gibran's "On Giving and Taking":

Once there lived a man who had a valley-full of needles. And one 
day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: 'Friend, my son's 
garment is torn and I must needs mend it before he goeth to the 
temple. Wouldst thou not give me a needle?' 

And he gave her not a needle, but he gave her a learned discourse 
on Giving and Taking to carry to her son before he should go to 
the temple.