Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Magnitude of Our Losses

BY GAREN YEGPARIAN


Can you conceive of having lived in a place for so long, you have no idea when your ancestors settled there?

Can you conceive of standing on a prominent rock, viewing a panoramic vista of some natural glory, knowing that every one of your ancestors was probably inspired by the same beauty?

Can you conceive of everything around you being associated with you, historically, personally, societally, religiously, politically?

Can you conceive of knowing how place and plant names were chosen, who did what, when and why at the foot of which mountain and atop which hill-- viscerally grasping these associations?

Can you conceive of your food coming from your own hands or places you know intimately?

Can you conceive of knowing that sleeping under a mulberry tree is good, but not under a walnut tree because of their respective auras?

Can you conceive of recognizing individual animals from season to season and year to year, having played with them when they were young while you were young?

Can you conceive of truly being HOME?

I can't. I've never had it. I've been denied this by Turkey's actions. I can only get glimmers of what it might be like: when I hear Native Americans speak of their world; when I'm told that the villagers living near the cedars of Lebanon consider themselves descendants of god; or when I see pictures of the single block of wall left standing of the Soorp Garabed monastery of Moosh--a place of great learning and one of the Armenian church's centers-- juxtaposed with pictures of what the place looked like a century ago.

This is what we've lost due to the Genocide. This is what the murderous Turkish government has taken from us. This is what destruction they have wrought, so thorough, so irretrievable, so ongoing as to sear any decent human's soul.

And we're supposed to just get over it by going on cruises, buying overpriced things, lived in garish houses, taking lavish trips, perforating our bodies with inked needles or metallic objects, working for the future, living in debt, etc.-- in short, drinking the toxic potion that passes for modern life, that concoction of banality debilitating humanity's aptitude for greatness.

Is that how you want to live? Is it what we want for our community, nation, and host countries?

Get out, get active.


Friday, December 12, 2008

OR WE DO IT OR WE DON'T.TEAM-WORK , NO NOT THE WAY IT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR BY OUR TRADITIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS.I DON'T MOCK THEM OR SCOLD THEM.THEY HAVE DONE WHATEVER THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TODO.N OT ENOUGH, SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU ARE DRIVING AT.
MINE IS A 30 YEAR DEVELOPING REDEVELOPING PLAN/PROJECT-PROGRAMMED WORK, IF YOU WILL.PLEASE VISIT MY WEB STE www.ARMENIDAD-worldwide.org THERE ALSO CLIK ON TOP PRE-CONFERENCE ARMENIA DIASPORA 2006 and ...
THAT IS WHERE WE CAN seek to have a national investment trust fund by the pca"s "Professional Colleagues Assocations' .OTHERS HAVE TRIED TO TAKE APRT OF MY WRIT AND DO IT THEIR WAY...ARMENIAN WAY OF NOT WISING TO DO TEAM WORK AND CME UP WITH THEIR VERSION.NAMELY NOW WE HAVE CHURCH'S ARMENIAN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS AGBU'S ETC.,
RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING I HAVE ADVOCATED BOTH FOR THE MIDDLE AGED ADVANCED IN AGE AND ALSO
TOP OF MY WEB SITE PLAINL INDICATES "auxilliary bodies for the young.the have a prominent place in my "PROJECTIONS ON A NEW STATUTE FOR THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA(S)
HAMAHAIGAGANI SIRO,
GAYTZAG PALANDJIAN.
BY THE BY I HAVE ALSO ADVOCATED THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT TRUST FUND ABOVE MENTIONED LONG AGO...IT WAS FIRST DUBBED BY SELF AS "armenian national fund" BEEN PUBLISHED IN ASBAREZ EXACTLY 30 YEASRS AGO...BUT WHEN AFTER EARTHQUAKE THE AALL ARMENIA FUND WAS ESTABLISHED-AN OPN END ONE-I CHANGED AND TO THE RIGHT DIRECDTION-AT LEAST I THINK SO- IN ORDER NOT TO CROSS IT ,WHAT IS MORE A DFFERENT LASTING FUND THAT WOULD BE PERMANENT IN SWITZERLAND...TAX FREE AND DIVIDENDS FROM IT TO BE LOANED TO ARMENIA ARTSAKH SMALL MIDDLE AND LARGE ENTERPRISES... ON VERY VER LOW INTEREST.WEREAS MOST OF IT INVESTED IN GOV. BONDS BEARING AT LEAST 6%...
now jsut these last few days>>>>>>some copiers at large are coming up with Armenian international bank AND that HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE...
HAMA HAIGAGANI SIRO,
GAYTZAG PALANDJIAN/SHANTAGIZOUM