We used to live in the west of the country.

Curiously, other plants like the cymbidium from the supermarket, the Cattleya I was plantsitting, and the nameless Epidendrum bought for a few dollars at the Miami airport did not seem to suffer from my clumsy attentions.

He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.

Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences.