Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Dec. 20, 2014)

True Religion

Tennyson had the British Empire for God, and Queen Victoria for Virgin Mary.

… Lady Gregory

A Modern Aphorism

A wise man knows that there are questions to which there are no answers; and problems for which there are no solutions.

Armenian Proverb

If you have a good wife, don’t go to weddings, and if you have a bad wife, don’t go to funerals, as you have them every day in your home.

A Plug for Chiropractic Medicine

Chiropractors practice what they preach:

They don’t smoke.

If they drink, it’s in moderation.

They are careful with their diet. Many are vegetarians.

They exercise regularly.

They care for their bodies, their most precious possession.

They believe physical health promotes mental health.

They treat their patients as they do themselves.

You don’t have to suffer from orthopedic problems to benefit from regular visits to a chiropractor. Their positive attitude will promote cheerfulness, which is a virtue.

Be kind to yourself, and thus to others.

From My Persian Dictionary

Harám: illegal

Chirághán: illuminated (of lamps)

Súrat: image

Khám: immature

What’s in a name?

Guldjian: Persian in derivation, borrowed by Turkish, identified as a trade, a guldji is defined as a grower or seller of roses.

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CK Garabed

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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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