Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 17, 2015)

Timely Prayer

God give us men. A time like this demands

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands!

Men whom the lust of office does not kill,

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy,

Men who possess opinions and a will,

Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

… J.G. Holland

Maori Proverb

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

From a Chinese Fortune Cookie

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

1932 Presidential Election Campaign Slogan

We want Roosevelt,

We want Roosevelt,

In the president’s chair.

We want Hoover,

We want Hoover,

In the electric chair.

Nice Guy

Next time you see Dr. Louis Najarian, greet him with “Pari Louis.”

What’s in a Name?

Haytaian: Turkish in derivation, identified as either a trade or descriptive term, hayta is defined as (formerly) a mounted guard, who escorted a caravan; an armed and mounted brigand; an out-of-hand, mischievous child; a young hooligan.

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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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