Reading Notes, Tejas Legends, Part A

(The Pink Cloud)

This week I chose to read stories from a tribe that lives in the state I was born: Texas. The stories in this collection personified inanimate objects which I thought was really cute. My favorite story to read was called The Cloud That Was Lost. At night clouds rest on top of mountains, but one cloud chasing its tail, sailed off from the others. When night fell he found himself over a broad, flat land and growing sleepily stretching himself over the land. The flowers on the land looked up, saw the pretty colors of the cloud, and wanting to be colorful too, drank until the cloud was gone. That's how the wild phlox flowers got their soft pretty color. An idea I had for the story this week was to tell the story from the flowers point of view, or even change the ending so that the cloud does not disappear. 

Bibliography: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton link to reading