For nearly two weeks now I’ve had a low, thumping, numbing headache. Too much tv. Too much news. Too much sadness. With the events in Haiti I’ve lost a lot of normal happy sleep to tossing and turning and tangled dreams. I’m dragging myself through some of my days. And I’m getting irritable.

I’ve found something though in the last couple of nights. I’m taking a few minutes before bed and sitting in silence. No noise, no music, no anything. Just a few minutes of calm. And it seems to help. Last night I slept through most of the night without so much as a dream or twitch waking me up.

Tonight though, after my little exercise of calm, I still felt a little wound up. So, with quiet streets, no wind and just the lights hailing from down the block I wandered out onto my porch with my camera. In my shorts and t-shirt and 15 degree weather, I made one image. Nothing special. Nothing too neat. I just needed to hear my camera. A simple click of my shutter. There was almost an instant release from the pressure that had been squeezing at my head for days. And suddenly I felt extremely tired. In a good way.