Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Jan. 24, 2015)

On Children

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls live in the house of tomorrow.

You may strive to be like them,

But seek not to make them like you,

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

… 3^rd-century Persian poet

Daffy-nition

Toast: Something that can be eaten or drunk.

The Snow King

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, killed in the “Thirty Years War” at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, was, at Vienna, called “The Snow King,” in derision. Like a snowball, he was kept together by the cold, but as he approached a warmer soil he melted away and disappeared.

Song of the Hive

Bee it ever so humble, there’s no place like comb.

Clever Rascal

Edo: You served in the military, didn’t you?

Bedo: Certainly.

Edo: Did you learn to use a rifle?

Bedo: Of course!

Edo: What was the first thing you did when cleaning your rifle?

Bedo: Look at the serial number.

Edo: What has that to do with it?

Bedo: To make sure I was cleaning my own gun.

What’s in a Name?

Sakabedoyan: Turkish and Armenian in derivation, identified as a trade, saka is defined as water-carrier, and Bedo is the diminutive of Bedros (Peter).

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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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