Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 25, 2015)

Nature’s Perversity

There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities.

… La Rochefoucauld

Armenian Proverb

On a rainy day many offer to water the chickens.

A Tip to the Girls

If you can’t think of any other way to flatter a man, tell him he’s the kind who can’t be flattered.

Well Said

EVIL will very rarely expose itself to public light. It must hide. And it almost always hides under the pretext of something virtuous. (https://psychopathresistance.wordpress.com)

A Modern Aphorism

People reveal a great deal about themselves when they are critical of others.

A Subtle Difference

If I preach my faith to you, I’m evangelizing.

If you preach your faith to me, you’re proselytizing.

Who’s Who?

In the Armenian community, anybody who is somebody is nobody.

What’s in a Name?

Sefilian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, sefil is defined as poor; miserable; destitute.

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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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