To a God Unknown

I picked up a very old book of mine, a Steinbeck, the shorter stories…… Of Mice and Men is one of my favourites as is The Grapes of Wrath.. some stories do get out of your hand though, before you can read them, cover to cover or start to finish. I think people are like stories too. The have beginnings, protagonists, great loves, grand failures, soul searching choices to make and an ending. Joseph Wayne was the main character in this story “To a God Unknown”… speaking of a time when the redwoods, streams, squirrels and children were also like stories, with beginnings, childhoods, adulthood, twilight and endings. It takes a while to see the story though. It takes even longer to understand it. The story begins with a quote from the Vedas so, this was even better.. Steinbeck and the Vedas.. hmm.. So the story set in the places of Nuestra Senora and Our Lady of Joseph, Burton, Thomas, Benjy, Old Juan, Romas, Old Willie, Juanito, Father Angelo, the wives Elizabeth, Harriet, Rama, Jennie, Alice Garcia, the kids Martha and John, the old oak tree, the circular rock and the stream of life all came together in 4 days of reading with an upset stomach and persistent headache! I think this heat will do me in, or make me stronger, whichever comes first… or maybe, as some wise man said “Perhals there isnt any change, ever, in anything. Perhaps unchangeable things only pass.”