Alignment doesn't announce itself. It doesn't arrive with clarity or fanfare or a moment where everything suddenly makes sense. It happens the way a plant finds its light. Slowly, imperceptibly, one degree at a time until one day you notice it's facing a completely different direction than it was before.

Give that plant a little more of what it needs and something shifts. The leaves stop drooping. The stems straighten up. Growth that had stalled for months quietly resumes. It simply found what it needed and responded accordingly.

The right conditions are closer than they seem.

— the editors