Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 27, 2016)

Of Hearts and Mouths

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

… Benjamin Franklin

Iberian Proverb

Bad news is always true.

A Reasonable Affliction

On his death-bed poor Lubin lies;
His spouse is in despair;
With frequent sobs and mutual cries,
They both express their care.

“A different cause,” says Parson Sly
“The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears that he may die;
His wife, that he may live.”

… Matthew Prior

Fortune Cookie Message

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.

The Stolen Horse

A Spaniard in his travels overtook an Indian in a desert. Both were mounted, but the Indian had the better horse. The Spaniard wanted him to change, and as he refused, set upon, mastered him, and took possession of the steed. The Indian rode peaceably to the next town, and then laid his complaint before the cadi. The Spaniard insisted the horse was his, and that the claim of the complainant was simply ridiculous. The Indian, throwing his scarf over the horse’s head, requested the cadi to demand of the defendant which of the horse’s eyes was the blind one. “The right eye,” cried the Spaniard. “Neither,” shouted the Indian, and the cadi at once adjudged the horse to its rightful owner.

What’s in a Name?

Vorperian: Armenian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, vorper is defined as orphans.

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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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