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# Lights
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/lights/
- Published: 2020-10-23T11:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:43.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Returning to the city, I felt a familiar drain on my attention as I drove down the FDR to ditch the rental car. I wasn’t distracted by the lights or skyscrapers. No, these pieces of the city looked supernatural in the Friday night fog, like impressions from a dream. Rather, it was the sensation of returning to news and anxiety after two days of widescreen thinking. Maybe it’s because going away requires intention, whereas coming home implies routine. But why should I feel like coming home requires me to monitor headlines and refresh my inbox? This doesn’t do anyone much good. These were my thoughts as I rode the subway back, half-watching an old man play scratch-off lotto.

It would be nice to be one of those lonely lights I saw last night on the horizon of the Atlantic, surrounded by the static of the sea rather than screens delivering news about spiking infections and perception hacking.

#### [The Detroit Escalator Company – City Lights](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/City%20Lights.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

###### Black Buildings | Peacefrog, 2001 | [Bandcamp](https://peacefrog.bandcamp.com/album/black-buildings-album?ref=jamesreeves.co)

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