Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Nov. 21, 2015)

Take Your Pick

Some people are unpleasant though worthy, others pleasant despite their faults.

… La Rochefoucauld

Chinese Proverb

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

The Right Way to Fish

Mr. Wright went out to fish,

And he became a right angler;

He thought he’d try and catch a shark,

And he became a try angler.

He laughed to think how smart he was,

And he became a cute angler.

But he didn’t see the shark

With its nose under his bark:

He was such an obtuse angler;

Until the creature tipped it over

When he became a wrecked angler.

… From the Whitehall Times

Starving Armenians

One day 400 Armenians, who had lost their way, came to the monastery of St. Euthymius (A.D. 376-473, born in Miletene, Armenia) and craved food. There was not at the time food enough in the monastery to last the usual inmates a single day, but Euthymius ordered food to be set at once before the travelers. When the monks, in obedience to this order, opened the larder, it was literally piled up to the very ceiling with food; indeed, so full was it, they found it hard to open the door. The wine and oil were similarly multiplied, so that after the 400 strangers had made a hearty meal, there was left a large store of provisions for the use of the monks.

… Cyrillus, Life of St. Euthymius

What’s in a Name?

Seuylemezian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, seuylemez, or sӧylemez in modern Turkish orthography, is defined as does not speak, say, tell, explain.

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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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