Now you should remember, my grandchild!

Great-aunt is weak, life is declining!

From now on, must surely depend on others

Rely on children, on sons-in-law, avoid danger in old age

grandfather advises you as you come and go

help great-aunt to be healthy and happy

So great-aunt no longer has to be sorrowful

the children happy, the grandparents at ease in old age!

Thanks to the aunts and uncles here

Thanks to the aunts and uncles of this group who show goodwill

So many blessings, well-wishes, warmth and peace

the family together, secretly remembered forever

Thanks to both girls and boys

together with grandchildren gathering the long days

together organizing the joyful welcome

prosperity for a hundred years, all in one house

blessings from above, forgiving heart and mind

peace, prosperity, longevity lacking in nothing

pray for the people of the four quarters

peaceful, joyful, healthy, sorrow gone

the future always red as vermilion

the family in harmony, complete, having one another.

Time flies, a hundred years, life ends

father old, mother withered, living here with

day and night enduring so much hardship

only then to have children under the sun

morning and night working, and enduring, trying hard

today the fruit is harvested, oh so joyful

hoping the later days are even better

forever grateful, in the heart the Buddha shines bright.

Quang gives birth to Phụng-Nguyên, showing heart

presenting to father, giving to mother, a token among two thousand

An Phụng has helped to share

put into the Thanh fund, now dividing here more

considering one another quietly and gently

Thanh Phương relieves worry day and night

thanks to the grandchild, thanks to Dung with all the heart

pray to Heaven, beseech Buddha to bless the heart!

Only the grandchild!

Wanting to eat, who blocks and threatens

the new person at first says nothing to the matter

In old age all is lost, every right

the right to eat, to speak, to advise, all gone

cover ears, cover eyes, just let it be

pull the bride along, later we shall see,

silent and quiet in this era

Well then "embrace love", hate "drunkenness" without objection.

Two thousand and six, before summer

the head physician declares for all to hear

straightforwardly wishing rather loudly: what is this measure?

Nghè!

Studying medicine wanting to pass: listen listen listen!

Whether the lesson is hard: tell tell tell

Study hard, no fear: So Sợ Sờ

On the honor board naturally: chớ, chợ, chở

family, both sides: ngong, ngóng, ngòng

old friends also hope: be, bẻ be

fairies near and far: rejoice, rejoice, rejoice

grand lanterns, firecrackers: dùng, dung, dung ..

Born into an awkward situation

mother and father in conflict, no warmth or joy

seldom anything to laugh happily about

only matters that trouble the heart with sorrow

Mother leaves, leaving behind all worry

the old nurse of father's side wants to serve day and night

chewing rice, wet-nursing gently

the paternal grandmother of her own accord adds more upon the bed

Now, looking back it feels touching

lucky to be still alive, who can foresee the future

Buddha and Heaven have already arranged it

a bitter fate to bear, to whom can one complain

grown up like grass, like trees

lacking deep affection, lacking this and that

a book is still wrapped by its cover

yet how do we lack a ray of joy

Phụng Lê has eleven children

four sons, seven daughters, complete and beautiful indeed!

Liên is the fifth daughter

so much effort, so much wealth, Thái comes home

comes home to care for mother and father

parents a hundred years still living together

helping with eating and drinking, offering nourishment

hygiene, sleep, meeting every wish

medicine fully provided over time

the household goods repaired, ever more wondrous

the child's heart beautiful like a palace lute

the lotus fragrant, fragrant forever, sea and mountain remembered always

through the years, remembered always, long remembered

the child's gratitude, a Buddha-heart, never forgotten through long days!

Renton, Mill Creek quite far

a heavenly bond, Minh Chánh has reached out

helping Phụng Thành on the right day

Chánh Minh, the dharma name, from now on wisdom-meditation

practicing at home properly is practicing to be an immortal

cultivate heart, cultivate nature, cultivate meditation is good

help the people rightly night and day

hoping the people are happy, keeping it by their own hands

through the years, bowing, pleading

begging Heaven, begging Buddha to bless good and joyful things

May, the eighth day has passed,

going out for a check-up, how is the illness?

is the nerve condition serious or not?

if the trembling hand can be cured, it is good news

if the root recovers, the back grows strong again

scan the heart, scan the brain, scanning everywhere accurately

if needed give injections, give at the right time

even more brain surgery, the heart torn to shreds

be patient, or keep waiting and hoping

awaiting the doctor's news, hoping for good news

hoping the results are fragrant and sweet

pray for husband Thuận, all misfortune gone, well at once

from of old, the family way, a fairy heart

Doctor Lena, kind-hearted, blesses

wishing Thuận water like a spring's abundance

the boat reaching shore, worry gone, joy returns!

Here, brother Phạm Nghiệp, of my father!

Are you sad?, do you resent life?

Having a wife, yet why so troubled a life?

alone, a single shadow, truly adrift!

Liên here, filial and dutiful, so complete

heedless of distance, crossing mountains and hills

caring for the old father, and the weak mother

husband's love, wife's duty, still barely holding on!