LIFE CAN BE MAGIC

FOR FATHER’S DAY THIS YEAR TERRY DECIDED TO WRITE A SONG. 

MY FATHER-IN-LAW IS AN AMAZING MAN . SMART, SELF-MADE, FUN, A WONDERFUL HUSBAND AND FATHER AND HANDSOME TOO.  YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW THE TRIALS THIS MAN ENDURED BEFORE HE BECAME THE MAN HE IS TODAY.

THIS ORPHAN BOY WAS FOSTERED OUT TO FAMILIES TO BE THEIR FARMHAND BUT SOMETIMES NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO EAT WITH THEM.  HE WAS OFTEN NOT TREATED WELL AND RAN AWAY MANY TIMES BEFORE HE WAS FINALLY BROUGHT BEFORE A JUDGE WHO GAVE HIM A FINAL WARNING : ‘ONE MORE TIME BEFORE MY COURT AND YOU WILL BE LOCKED UP’. 

SOMEWHERE IN THERE HE MET BEAUTIFUL JOAN WHO WAS 13 AT THE TIME.  THEY SAT TOGETHER IN SCHOOL AND SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON WHO ACTUALLY TREATED HIM AS A PERSON. SOON AFTER THE JUDGE’S EDICT, EDWARD DECIDED TO CHANGE HIS LIFE AROUND. 

YOU COULD IMAGINE HOW LIFE COULD HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY AFTER THIS KIND OF LONELY UPBRINGING.  ED COULD HAVE TURNED TO ALCOHOL, DRUGS, HATRED,OR CRIME. INSTEAD HE TAUGHT HIMSELF TO BUILD HOUSES AND HIS BUSINESS,”BACHYNSKI BUILDERS” IS STILL GOING STRONG TODAY UNDER THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF HIS SON, TED. HE HAS BEEN MARRIED TO JOAN FOR OVER 66 YEARS AND THEY HAVE 5 CHILDREN (A NURSE, 2 BUSINESS WOMEN, A LAWYER BY TRAINING, AND TED, THE BUILDER).  THEIR FAMILY LINEAGE NOW INCLUDES 13 GRANDCHILDREN AND 19 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ! 

TERRY SINGS A BIT ABOUT HIS FATHER’S LIFE IN HIS NEW SONG, “LIFE CAN BE MAGIC” AND IT BRINGS ME TO TEARS EVERY TIME I HEAR IT.  BECAUSE LIFE CAN BE MAGIC DESPITE ALL THE HARDSHIPS IT THROWS AT US SOMETIMES. 

LOVE IS A POWERFUL GAME CHANGER AND JOAN’S LOVE HELPED HIM HEAL.