Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Nov. 22, 2014)

One Way Street

We always like those who admire us, but not always those we admire.

La Rochefoucauld

 

Quia de Malo est Bona

If it weren’t for volcanoes we wouldn’t have many beautiful mountains.

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The Ox and the Grasshopper

As in a field a sturdy Ox was ploughing,

A Grasshopper, close by him, shrilly sang out:

“Ah! What a crooked furrow, friend, you’re making!”

Then the Ox answered, “Sure, my little lady,

If every other furrow were not drawn straight,

You never would perceive that this was crooked;

Stop, then, reproaches so unjust and futile;

For well I serve my master, and he heeds not

A single failure, in so much accomplished.”

… Yriarte’s Fables

 

The Spider’s Interpretation

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What’s in a Name?

Hamalbashian: Turkish in derivation, identified as an occupation, a hamal bash is defined as a head porter.

CK Garabed

CK Garabed

Weekly Columnist
C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.
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