Presence
The Anger Just Left
Tulsa, USA·July 3, 2026
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A friend of mine posts here sometimes and finally convinced me to try it myself, though I'd rather stay unnamed. I was sitting alone in my car outside a Tulsa gas station after a fight with my husband, angrier than I've been in years, when I felt something arrive in the car with me, calm and deliberate, and lift the anger out of me the way you'd lift a coat off someone's shoulders. Not faded, lifted, by something with intention behind it. I sat there for a long minute waiting for the anger to come back and it didn't. I went home and we actually talked instead of yelling.