Our society idolises the independent individual with consumer power and endless choices. Retirement looks like an ebbing tide withdrawing such freedom from reach.
What this says to me is that the delta variant is ebbing, more people have been vaccinated and there is a lot of pent up demand in the system post-COVID.
Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.