Headache

I have a headache and am feeling tired. Maybe being around doctors and patients causes catching something.

If -

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

 

-Rudyard Kipling

If I could keep a cool head, if I trusted myself, if I were patient; if I could dream and not be beholden to my dreams, if I could conquer myself in victory and defeat, if I could let go of everything but my will to hold my heart and nerve. Would that there be a man left?

Goodnight Forever

A lasting silence
Obscure and damning
Leveling off the perversity of time
We flow sequenced in order of pain
And forgetfulness of old

The sky opens
Its hands outstretched into something everlasting
A scream, a fog, a misunderstanding
Honoring death’s echoes.

A new dawn is ever unreachable
Fruit of the fecund dance of errant masses and polychromatic mist
A dearth of shame sung to hymns, doubt like shades on each lighted object, a novel face unto eternal rivals, a barren scape awaits.
No more a hesitant mover,
No less a predictable fate.

A cycle like day and night and year, the seasons repeat, echoes of things before seen and seen again
Coincidence never concerts a meeting twice when once suffices
However certain the hour has come and yet come again, once lost
Once found the darkness that separates abounds
A night, a good night forever lasts
And sets a gloom upon the grave.

© 2011 Eduardo De León

Remote Desktop tool from Google

Google has released software that allows you to remotely view and control a computer that chooses to share its desktop. The software is an add-on for the Google Chrome web browser, and it is in beta mode as of this writing. The add-on is called “Remote Desktop beta” by Google, and can be downloaded from the Google Chrome Web Store.

This software is helpful when you want to view your computer remotely. It is also helpful, for example, when assisting someone remotely; computer support personnel can remotely view and control the computer of someone who needs assistance and chooses to share their screen.

Tonada de luna llena

Yo vide una garza mora
dándole combate a un río
así es cómo se enamora
tu corazón con el mío

Luna, luna luna llena
menguante
Luna, luna, luna llena,
menguante

Anda muchacho a la casa
y me traes la carabina
pa’ matá’ ese gavilán
que no me deja gallina

La luna me está mirando
yo no sé lo que me ve
Yo tengo la ropa limpia
ayer tarde la lavé.

Luna, luna luna llena
menguante
Luna, luna, luna llena
menguante

Simón Díaz

Rain Over Bronx River

, a photo by eduardodeleon on Flickr.

Elevated View

View of Parkchester, The Bronx, from the elevated train platform.

Time Flies

This is the first week back in the renovated space; today is Friday, so it’s been four days since we moved in. And already we have flies.

This is because people are eating in our renovated space, despite the “rule” that we are to eat in the designated eating area.

Headache

I have a headache and feel tired.