Tumbleweed
Copywrite 2010 by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines All rights reserved Tumbleweed Some people would call me a plain old tumbleweed, but I am so much more than that. I am a Salsola tragus from the family of Amaranthaceae. I am very proud of my background. That’s why I have always wanted to show the rest of my family how special life and they could be. You see they’ve always felt that the only thing they needed to do was let the wind guide them through their life cycle. To them you were born, grow to maturity, then break off from your roots and sow your seed wherever the wind took you. When I let those around me know what I intended they laughed, called me a fool. They didn’t think I could control fate. “It is foolish to try to control where you land.” “Stop trying to show off, you aren’t better than any of the rest of us.” “Who do you think you are tempting fate like that, it will come to no good?” I constantly was hearing those words and so much more. Understand I was no