You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing....
When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.
The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and...
The cost of living is increasing arithmetically but the cost of "Dying" is increasing exponentially.......