Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 14, 2015)

Sage Advice

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”
… Louisa May Alcott

 

Daffy-nition

Reincarnation: When a certain red flower comes back to life.

 

The Class Reunion

How the hallowed halls echo with singing!

How memory tugs at the heart,

When the old school crowd gets together

To see who is falling apart!

 

… Stephen Schlitzer

 

More Anti-TARC Talk

As an organized entity, TARC (Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission) may no longer exist, but the TARC concept continues to struggle on like a malignant parasite.

You know what that is, don’t you? A malignant parasite lives off the host in such a way that it eventually kills the host, and dies along with it.

 

From My Persian Dictionary

Kufr; impiety

Naksh: impression (stamp)

Nishán: impression (stamp)

Dushvár: Inconvenient

 

What’s in a Name?

Oshinian: Persian in derivation, identified as a botanical term, oshin is defined as garden thyme.

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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