For weeks now, I have been catching up—to these Sundays, to my own unfolding, to a life reorganized by distance and the strange grace of new geography. Hawaii rewrote the map. The dissertation became memory, its defense a threshold already crossed. And somewhere in that crossing, something shifted in how I understand readiness itself. Readiness is not a state of perfect preparation. Readiness is an arrival—a moment when you recognize, with some clarity, that you have the comp