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# Nine Years Sober Today
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/night-flight-to-utah/
- Published: 2022-02-01T19:31:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:05.000Z
- Description: I find so much peace in the electrified grids of cities.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Yesterday C. surprised me with a birthday trip into the mountains, and I spent most of the flight gazing out the window, wondering how I could have ever taken this view for granted: the tiny winter trees and miniature snow-covered houses, the rivers of headlights and taillights. The mountains out there in the dark. A car drifts down a highway like a ghost, and there’s a perfect pool of light from a lone sodium lamp in a parking lot. I find so much peace in the electrified grids of cities. From this altitude, our civilization looks so safe and orderly, even sane.

Nine years sober today. There were times I couldn’t even dream of nine days. Or hours. Proof there’s such a thing as grace. If you’re struggling, please reach out to someone. (I’m here.)