This exploration is a journeying toward ethical encounters with others in unfamiliar locales. It attends to friendship, close association with non-relatives, and a nexus of themes that arise amidst the COVID-19 global health crisis: quarantine life, networks of belonging and human connections, and new forms of research and productivity. The piece’s ruminative thinking draws on what the author discovers at a personal level in Madrid, Spain, pursuing a knowledge of what is to be gained—produced—by not moving, but from dwelling indoors. Not a travelogue underpinned by tourist optimism, this postcard essay is a travel story of a philosophy of life through friendship and a caring commitment to strangers. This approach allows for coping through and understanding the most important problem of our time, the COVID-19 pandemic.

这项探索是向与陌生地区中的其他人进行道德交往的旅程。它关注友谊，与非亲戚的紧密联系以及在COVID-19全球健康危机中出现的一系列主题：隔离生活，归属网络和人际关系以及新的研究和生产力形式。该作品的反省思维借鉴了作者在西班牙马德里个人层面上发现的东西，他们追求的知识是不动，而是从室内居住而获得的东西。这本明信片文章并非以游客乐观为基础的旅行，而是一个通过友谊和对陌生人的关怀承诺的生活哲学旅行故事。这种方法可以应对和理解我们时代最重要的问题，即COVID-19大流行。