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# Tabula Rasa
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/slate/
- Published: 2020-10-13T11:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:45.000Z
- Description: I’m fantasizing about the desert again.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

I’m fantasizing about the desert again. The Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan. A place where only the occasional shredded tire or dilapidated cabin would interrupt my fantasy that I’m driving on another planet. I’m daydreaming about the desert as a tabula rasa, a blank-slated land of spiritualized visions, even though I know there’s by now no such thing as a fresh start. The past must be reckoned with, and it can be done painfully or gracefully. But one day, I’m going to live in a double-wide and get weird.