In this issue, we set our sights the quiet infinities that live inside the big worlds we dream or linger on: versions of us we leave behind in airports, the comfort of sikwate in markets, farmers’ hands that put the heart in placemaking, how the open water feels miles away from shore, a quiet day’s walk; a library or a shop that bears witness to us as home does. These stories will remind you that by recognizing the life that breathes in the ordinary, as poet William Martin notes, “The extraordinary will take care of itself.”