Apologies

Apologies for lack of a post so far this week. I am in transition, drove several hundred miles yesterday, and it is HOT.

Went through several once-prosperous small towns; it is frightening to see what is happening in rural or even semi-rural areas and the wide variation in prices. In some more prosperous places, grocery prices are three times what they are elsewhere. How do the less well-off people who serve the wealthy survive?