Uncle Garabed's Notebook (Feb. 23, 2013)

What’s New?

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

…Samuel Johnson

The Bee and the Cuckoo

“Stop, Cuckoo,” said the Bee;

“With my labors interferes

That unpleasant voice of thine,

Always ringing in my ears.

There is no bird in song,

So monotonous as thou,

It is cuckoo all day long,

And nothing but cuckoo!”

“Wearies you my monotone?’

The Cuckoo straight rejoined;

”So, too, one shape alone,

In thy waxen cells, I find

If, in the self-same way,

You make a hundred as each one;

If I nothing new can say,

Nothing new by you is done.”

…Yriarte’s fables

From My Persian Dictionary

Máhí: fish

Mazah: flavor

Gul; flower

Gulzár: flower garden

What’s in a Name?

Sinanian: Arabic in derivation, identified as a trade or descriptive term, sinan is defined as a lance, and the bearer of the name was either a maker/seller of such, or who stood and walked erectly.

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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.