Phương Hoàng Hamilton: June 2024

Friday, June 21, 2024

My Father

Friday, June 21, 2024

Ba Của Tôi

Thật may mắn và có phúc cho đứa trẻ nào có cha bên cạnh mẹ chăm lo nuôi dạy con cái nên người rồi mới ra đi về thiên đường.

Càng may mắn và có phúc hơn là cha chỉ có một vợ mà thôi.

Càng may mắn và có phúc hơn nữa là cha siêng năng làm việc kiếm được nhiều tiền một cách chân chính cho vợ con mình có cuộc sống ngày càng tốt đẹp hơn.

Anh chị em chúng tôi đã có phước báu có được người cha như vậy.

Nhưng khi cha còn sống cũng có khi bị cha nghiêm khắc la mắng dạy dỗ bằng lời lẽ khó chịu thì lúc đó lại oán giận cha.

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Tôi là đứa con lớn nhất năm nay 68 tuổi- 1956 và đứa em nhỏ nhất hiện nay là 52 tuổi -1972.

Tất cả đều cố gắng nghe lời cha dạy là học tới khi xong cấp đại học rồi đi làm việc và chăm lo cho con cháu mình cũng như cha mẹ đã chăm lo cho chúng tôi.

Chúng tôi đầu không có dịp chăm chút cha nhưng đã sống theo lời dạy của cha, sống đàng hoàng theo nghề nghiệp đàng hoàng cho nên như vậy là đã mỗi ngày trả hiếu cho cha rồi.

Tôi vẫn tiếc là cha tôi đã được an táng bên cạnh mẹ tôi ở California. Mà không đến sống sớm hơn ở Bắc Mỹ như chúng tôi vì nơi đây mới là nơi thích hợp cho người như ba tôi sinh sống và thi triển tài năng của cha.

Đó là số mệnh của từng người. Cha chỉ đến thế gian này chừng đó năm với chúng tôi mà thôi rồi trở về nhà cha nơi thiên đường.

Thương nhớ cha và mẹ chúng tôi luôn tri ân hai ngài.

Cầu xin mười phương chư Phật độ trì cha mẹ bình an nơi thiên đường.

Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật.

My Father

It is very lucky and blessed for a child to have a father by his or her mother's side to take care of them and raise them well before leaving for heaven.

Even more fortunate and blessed is the father who only has one wife.

Even more fortunate and blessed is that my father works diligently to earn a lot of money honestly so that his wife and children can have a better and better life.

We brothers and sisters are fortunate to have such a father.

But when my father was still alive, there were times when my father scolded one of us harshly and taught us with unpleasant words, and at that time, we resented him.

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I am the oldest child, 68 years old this year - 1956, and the youngest child is now 52 years old - 1972.

We all try to follow to our father's teachings: study until we finished college, then went to work and took care of our children and grandchildren just like our parents took care of us.

At first we did not have the opportunity to take care of our father, but we lived according to his teachings and lived a dignified life with a decent career, so we paid back our filial piety to him every day.

I still regret that my father was buried next to my mother in California. But he didn't come to live earlier in North America like us because this is the right place for someone like my father to live and develop his talent.

That is each person's destiny. Father stayed in this world for just a few years with us and then returned to his home in heaven .

We miss our father and mother and are always grateful to them.

I pray to the Buddhas of the ten directions to keep my parents safe in heaven.

Namo Amitabha Buddha.

Peonies

Peony

Now I know peonies are edible flowers.

Daughter gave parents 2 dinner tickets for Từ Phụ Day- Father's Day.

The party was called “Peonies in Bloom” in the city's lakeside flower garden.

Watching peonies in full bloom and ate in the garden surrounded by flowers. Especially the Peony flowers were blooming.

The scent of flowers wafted in the air. Music without lyrics by violin. The dishes were decorated with peony stamens. Delicious and delicious dishes made from ingredients taken from the flower garden. There was a chef who explained instructions of cooking every dish before eating.

Eat in the garden under the blue sky, white clouds, and bright sunshine. Each dish had a different and appropriate drink. 4 dishes were 4 types of drinks. Every dish was beautiful and delicious. Truly an interesting outdoor banquet.

Thank you daughter.

Hoa Mẫu Đơn

Bây giờ mới biết hoa mẫu đơn là hoa ăn được.

Con gái tặng cha mẹ 2 vé ăn tối cho ngày Từ Phụ.

Bữa tiệc được gọi là “Peonies in Bloom” trong vườn hoa bên hồ của thành phố.

Ngắm hoa mẫu đơn nở rộ và ăn trong khu vườn chung quanh là hoa. Đặc biệt là hoa Mẫu Đơn đang nở.

Hương hoa thoảng trong không khí. Nhạc không lời đàn bằng violin. Các món ăn có trang hoàng bằng nhị hoa Mẫu đơn. Thơm ngon và món ăn làm từ nguyên liệu lấy trong vườn hoa. Có chef giải thích từng món nấu ra sao trước khi ăn.

Ăn trong vườn dưới trời xanh mây trắng nắng sáng. Mỗi món ăn có thức uống thích hợp và khác nhau. 4 món là 4 loại thức uống. Món nào cũng đẹp và ăn ngon. Quả thực một bữa yến hội ngoài trời thú vị.

Cám ơn con gái.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

My Father

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

My father

This is a photo of my father that luckily survived many years and there was a time when the house we lived in when we were young in Quảng Đức burned down and the photo was still here. It's a blessing for us to still be able to see our father as a young man. Dad was so handsome.

In these years, everything has developed, especially the internet, media, movies... many pictures and short videos are posted online. Both men and women are so beautiful. The photo is so beautiful and the person is so beautiful. Edited photos also make unbeautiful people look radiantly beautiful... Everyone is beautiful.

Looking back at the black and white photo of my father. Black and white photo without adjusting the body and face....This photo was taken when my father was a single young man around 1954, 1953. Behind him was a vast Dalat pine forest... I remember what my mother said. It was my father standing next to Bá Hộ Chúc bridge or the bridge of Ông Đạo on the shore of Xuân Hương Lake in Dalat. Dad was so handsome, youthful and somewhat attractive. Hehe, I didn't know how else to describe it. I remember my grandmother gave birth to 5 sons, all of whom were very handsome and had beautiful faces, but the other 4 were even more handsome because they were tall, only my father was the shortest. Even if male actors are very handsome, they often lack the strength that young men exude like my father.

My father held a cigarette in his hand. I remember my dad occasionally smoked cigarettes, and the cigarette packet had a picture of a "cat" head on it, and it smelled very good. It seemed like Dunhill cigarettes were no longer produced. Or dad even smokes Cuban cigars and buys a big box to treat guests on Tết even. But he only smoked with guests. When the guests left, the cigars were also extinguished, so the cigars remained halfway on the ashtray. Cigarettes were often used as "bait" for conversation between men, smoking to socialize. So my father was not addicted to smoking because I didn't see him smoking without friends. He also drank wine and beer, but it's usually just a bottle of cold beer for a meal. Sometimes an appetizer was a small glass of spirits like whiskey or Cognac. Sometimes when he didn't drink beer, he had a glass of Bordeau wine for a meal. Dad drank wine to enhance the flavor of meals and was neither an alcoholic nor drunk. That is also the bravery of men.

Every time I followed my husband Kim to the LCBO store to look at the wine brands which my father had tasted during meals, I realized that my father was very luxurious, but now I knew that he spended too much money on beer and wine. When I traveled to Cuba with my husband Kim and went to the cigar shop, I remembered that my father used to smoke this cigar. I remember that the scent of cigars and the image of my father still lingered around me. And next to me is Mr. Kim, who also drank 1 bottle or 1 can of cold beer or a small glass of wine. he also smoke English cigarettes but he is not addicted, he also bought red wine and strong alcohol, and then every time he ate at home, he drank a glass to enhance the flavor of the food... but he’s not addicted to it either. There is also another brave man next to me.

Brave and handsome, my father was truly a beautiful man before he got married and even more handsome later as a responsible mature man when he got married and had children. We are our father's children, we always miss our father and are proud of him. Before I could take care of my father for a day to repay his gratitude, my father passed away and went to heaven. It's so regretful that I miss my dad and the lesson is to always love and take care of those around me.

Many thanks to you, father.

I pray to the Buddhas of the ten directions to grant my father eternal peace.

Namo Amitabha Buddha

Ba Của Tôi

Đây là tấm ảnh ba tôi mà may mắn còn qua bao năm và có lúc nhà chúng tôi ở lúc nhỏ trên Quảng Đức bị cháy rụi mà tấm ảnh vẫn còn đây. Thật là phúc cho chúng tôi còn được nhìn cha lúc trẻ. Ba đẹp trai ra phết đó.

Những năm này cái gì cũng phát triển , nhất là internet, media, phim...nhiều hình ảnh và video ngắn tung lên mạng. Nam nữ đều đẹp quá. Ảnh thật người thật quá đẹp. Ảnh chỉnh sửa cũng làm người không đẹp thành đẹp rực rỡ....Ai cũng đẹp.

Nhìn lại tấm ảnh đen trắng của ba mình. Ảnh đen trắng không chỉnh người và mặt mũi....Tấm ảnh này chụp lúc ba tôi là thanh niên độc thân vaò khoảnh năm 1954, 1953. Sau lưng là một rừng thông Đàlat bát ngát... Tôi nhớ má tôi nói đó là ba tôi đứng bên cầu Bá Hộ Chúc hay cầu ông Đạo gì đó ở bờ hồ Xuân Hương Đàlạt. Ba thật đẹp trai phong độ trẻ trung và có phần hấp dẫn đó chứ. Hơ hơ không biết mô tả ra sao nữa. Nhớ lại bà nội tôi sinh ra 5 người con trai đều rất đẹp người, mặt đẹp rồi mà 4 người kia càng phong độ lắm vì cao lớn, chỉ có ba tôi là lùn nhất. Các tài tử nam có đẹp lắm cũng vậy thôi, Nhiều khi họ còn thiếu nét mạnh mẽ của đàn ông trẻ toát ra ngoài như ba mình nhé.

Ba tôi trong tay cầm điếu thuốc. Tôi nhớ ba mình thỉnh thoảng có hút thuốc mà trên gói thuốc có hình đầu“con mèo” thơm lắm, hình như là thuốc lá hiệu Dunhill không còn sản xuất nữa. Hay ba còn hút xì gà Cuba mua cả hộp to đãi khách ngày Tết. Nhưng ông chỉ hút khi tiếp khách thôi, khách ra về thì xì gà cũng dập tắt cho nên điếu xì gà cứ còn lưng chừng nằm trên cái gạt tàn thuốc. Điếu thuốc nhiều khi là để “mồi” cho câu chuyện giữa những người đàn ông với nhau, hút thuốc để xã giao. Cho nên ba tôi không ghiền thuốc vì không thấy ông hút thuốc khi không có bạn. Rượu và bia ba cũng có uống mà rất hay là một bữa ăn một chai bia lạnh thôi. Có khi một ly appetizer là 1 ly rượu mạnh nhỏ như whisky hay Cognac. Có khi không uống bia thì một ly rượu chát Bordeau cho 1 bữa ăn. Ba uống rượu để tăng hương vị cho bữa ăn và không hề nghiện rượu, cũng không say rượu. Đó cũng là bản lĩnh của đàn ông nhỉ.

Mỗi khi tôi theo ông xã Kim ra tiệm LCBO nhìn các nhãn hiệu rượu ba đã từng nếm trong các bữa ăn tôi nhận ra ba mình sang ghê hè, mà bây giờ con mới biết ba xài quá sang trong bia rượu. Khi đi du lịch Cuba với anh xã Kim tới hãng vấn xì gà mới nhớ ba mình từng hút xì gà này, nhớ lại mà mùi hương xì gà và hình bóng ba mình còn vấn vít xung quanh mình. Mà sát bên mình là anh Xã Kim cũng như vậy một bữa ăn 1 chai hay 1 lon bia lạnh hay một ly rượu nhỏ. Thuốc lá eng cũng có hút mà không ghiền, rượu cũng mua rượu chát rượu mạnh, rồi về nhà mỗi khi ăn thì một ly để cho tăng hương vị món ăn...mà cũng không ghiền. Cũng một người đàn ông bản lĩnh sát bên mình đó.

Bản lĩnh và đẹp trai, ba tôi thật là người đàn ông quá đẹp trước khi có vợ và sau này càng đẹp trong tư cách trách nhiệm của người đàn ông thành thục khi lập gia đình. Chúng tôi là những đứa con của ba, luôn thương nhớ ba mình và tự hào về ba mình. Tôi chưa được một ngày chăm sóc ba để đền ơn trả hiếu thì cha đã ra đi về thiên đường. Thật tiếc nuối cho nên nhớ ba và bài học là luôn thương yêu chăm sóc người thân bên cạnh mình.

Muôn vàn tạ ơn cha.

Cầu xin mười phương chư Phật độ trì cho cha nơi bình an vĩnh hằng.

Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật

HTMP

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Birthday

Happy birthday to me

I was born on the full moon day of the Year of the Monkey, 1956.

Before the full moon day, my mother told me that she was in labor for 3 days before giving birth to me. My father also told my mother to try to avoid the full moon day because baby who was giving birth on the full moon day is very difficult to raise. Wow, there's also superstition. But how did you control when the baby comes out of the mother's womb? As a result, the exact time I was born was 11:30 on the full moon night. Maybe it was too painful to give birth to me, so often when I heard my mother scolding me, I felt sorry for myself that she hated me for causing her pain for 3 days.

I didn't know if it's true as my father predicted, "babies born on the full moon day are difficult to raise...?" But my mother said I'm prone to colds, coughs, fevers, stomachaches...maybe small children are the same, because when raising children I realized that babies are weak and susceptible to illness, only to get stronger and stronger and less sickness from 5 years old or more.

Every year, the full moon day of the fourth month according to the lunar calendar coincides with the solar calendar, which is a different date. This year, the full moon day according to the lunar calendar is Wednesday, May 22, 2024. This year the full moon has a beautiful red flower moon photo. . Thank you parents for giving birth to me. They are two young people with nothing but gave birth to me and that love continued for 30 years until they were apart when my father passed away from this world in 1985.

After my father passed away, my mother recited Buddhist scriptures every day until the day she reunited with her father in heaven in 2010. "Reunite" was what I said, but thinking deeply, I didn't know if Heaven was vast and would meet anyone. Or is it just a dream while people are still living in this world?

Thank you parents for giving birth to me and taking care of me carefully all my life.

Pray to the Buddhas of the ten directions to bless your parents with peace in heaven.

Mừng sinh nhật mình

Tôi sanh ra vào ngày rằm năm Bính thân 1956.

Trước ngày trăng rằm má tôi kể lại bà đã chuyển bụng 3 ngày mới sanh ra tôi. Mà ba tôi còn nói với má tôi là ráng tránh ngày rằm vì đẻ con ngày rằm khó nuôi lắm. Ui da còn có tin dị đoan nữa. Mà làm sao mà điều khiển em bé chui ra khỏi bụng mẹ lúc nào. Kết quả đúng giờ tôi ra đời là 11:30 đêm rằm. Có lẽ quá đau mới sanh được tôi nên nhiều khi nghe má la mắng um xùm tôi cứ tủi thân là má ghét mình đã làm má đau 3 ngày.

Không biết có đúng như ba tôi dự đoán “em bé sanh vào ngày rằm khó nuôi...?” mà má tôi nói tôi dể bị cảm mạo, ho hen, nóng sốt, đau bụng...có lẽ trẻ con nhỏ giống nhau, vì khi nuôi con tôi nhận ra các em bé đều yếu ớt dể bị đau ốm chỉ khoẻ hơn và ít đau lặc vặc từ 5 tổi trở lên.

Mỗi năm ngày rằm tháng tư theo âm lịch trùng với ngày dương lịch là ngày khác nhau, Năm nay ngày rằm năm theo lịch mặt trăng là ngày Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Năm nay trăng tròn tháng tư có tấm ảnh trên internet, the flower moon đỏ thật đẹp. Tạ ơn ba má đã sinh ra tôi. Hai ngài là hai người trẻ tuổi trắng tay vẫn sinh ra tôi và tình yêu đó nối tiếp 30 năm hai người mới xa nhau khi ba tôi từ giã cõi đời này 1985.

Sau khi ba tôi mất má tôi mỗi ngày tụng kinh niệm Phật cho tới ngày má sum họp với ba trên trời 2010. “Sum họp” là tôi nói, còn nghĩ sâu xa thì tôi không biết thiên đường bao la có ai gặp được ai hay chỉ là chuyện mơ tưởng khi người ta còn sống trên thế gian ta bà này.

Tạ ơn ba má đã sanh ra con và chăm sóc nuôi nấng cẩn thận con cả đời.

Cầu nguyện chư Phật mười phương gia hộ cho cha mẹ được an lành trong cõi thiên đường.

Tạ ơn tất cả.

Friday, June 7, 2024

Yellow Flowers

Love yellow flowers

I don't know the name of this beautiful flowers. They were from some where ...they came to grow in my garden, they even grow on the pebblestone. The flowers bloom when the sunlight and the petals chose when the light goes out. Flowers go to sleep at night!

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