C. K. Garabed

C.K. Garabed has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. He has lectured on various subjects in a number of Armenian church and community groups. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He is a regular contributor to the “Armenian Weekly”, “Armenian Reporter International” and the AGBU Literary Quarterly “Ararat”. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed’s Notebook”, in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles and trivia of interest to Armenian American readers.

Articles

Armenia: Deathless Tree

ARMENIA: The Deathless Tree By C.K. Garabed The seeds had been planted upon the peaks of Ararat by Noah the progenitor. The waters of the Tigris and Euphrates nourished the roots of the seedling tree. The trunk grew modestly at first and bent with the winds of change. But sturdily it grew until it became a cordon of rings so mighty that not the Parthians, nor the Assyrians, nor even the Romans could uproot the tree....

Anathema

Hey Turk! Did you think you disposed of me? That your conscience was clear because you erased your memory? That you could wash your mind of its historic bloody stains? Did you think you could eradicate my name as you did the inscriptions on the old stone churches in your midst? Did you think you could teach your children lies and then have them repeat your words and make them sound like truths because they came out of the mouths of babes?...