Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (August 22, 2009)

Shedding Light
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
… Henry van Dyke

The Forgotten Beatitude
Blessed are those that can give
Without remembering
And take
Without forgetting.

A Lesson in Morals
Morality is anti-nature.
And that is why it is natural for nations to place their interests above all else.

Anonymous Limerick
There once was a sculptor named Phidias
Whose manners in art were invidious:
  He carved Aphrodite
  Without any nightie,
Which startled the ultrafastidious.

A Single Purpose
When the American Berlioz Society got organized back in the 1950’s for the purpose of propagating the music of French composer Hector Berlioz by means of concert performances, publications, and recordings of his works, it adhered to its single purpose by disbanding once its objectives were met.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the March of Dimes, which was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat polio. Once its objective was met, instead of going out of business, it merely focused on some other disease, namely, premature births and serious birth defects. The officers of the organization weren’t about to give up their lucrative salaries just to prove a point.

What’s in a Name?
Gakavian: Armenian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, gakav is defined as partridge.

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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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