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Posted by Farid (Moderator) - Wednesday, November 19 2003, 11:30:51 (EST)
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Some years back, when I was still at work on the Shumirum Monument and hadn't yet been propositioned by Jackie, one of her friends, a contractor in San Jose, bought a maquette of the Shumrium and gave me the correct spelling of his and his wife's name for the base of the monument. I'm not sure how he paid but he wound up owing a few thousand. Working on a shoestring, as you do when you free-lance and try to build monuments, I called him a few times to remind him. Finally he had the check and I was to go pick it up at his office. His last words to me, in that final conversation...said with some exasperation too, were..."You are a charity, after all...aren't you"?

I think he meant what was I doing being pushy rather than grateful...also, where was the big hurry to get up a monument and wasn't it a bit arrogant of me to call insisting...just as if I was doing real work...important work...like he did building houses and gas stations. It's understandable...even forgiveable he would feel that way for we've made a charity case AND a basket case of the Assyrian Heritage, Indeed we respond best to "national issues" that are purely charity work...such as helping miskeeni Assyrians first...then helping to MAKE Assyrians miskeeni, so there'll be miskeeni Assyrians to give charity to..."to rebuild the huts of"...after we blow their roofs off. It's a perfect set-up really with guaranteed national work to do for the next 500 years, or till we run out of us.

Even when we think in terms of the Arts or monumets or poetry or dancing children...we come at it through a "charity" perspective...it's the Christian in us...since being Christian is all about humility and meekness and dirt milkshakes.

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