f in the first year of the pandemic, we collectively learned the compromised adequacy of remote communication, in a strange inversion, the openings in the second year afforded opportunities to re-learn, and enjoy, personal interaction again. Returning to the world has meant navigating its new, relative scale. As an editor at a magazine that reports on a vast physical geography, now situated in a region of limited travel, I have felt the territorial constraints of Hong Kong. Yet the most visceral experiences of the past year took
