Another Tale of Mice and Kin

 If you have not figured it out yet, "Of mice and kin" is a play on words relating to the original John Steinbeck novel "Of Mice and Men"...  I like the play on words, however it is not a parody of the work as I do not know enough about the original work to draw any comparisons.  I saw the movie version of the work with Sally Field and John Malkovich.  I will always allways remember the last scene of the movie when everyone - all the characters - the black and the white, the dead law enforcement official and the person who killed him.  I like the thought of us all being cleansed of our sins and reunited in some form of heaven.   A little online research yielded me a hint as to where the title originated: The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry").  In my adaptation the best laid plans of mice and kin...

Mice have always all ways been a part of my life - both directly and indirectly. Some of my kin are catastrophically afraid of mice. Every time one is spotted where we live, the shrieks come on assuredly. Some of my kin are extremely interested in mice and whenever they are seen they become the participants in detailed ethnographic research pursuits. Another of my kin is somewhere in the middle. Somewhere between having a mouse as a pet and viewing mice only from the relative safety of a kitchen chair (because there are always mice nearby in the kitchen). Mice as kin is a leap that some are unable to make. Mice in fact are just another being in the animal kingdom - just like us :)