This is Jockel Podcast number 310 with Carrie Helton and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Carrie. Good evening.

I went back to the living room and sat down on the couch.

Newspaper clippings, letters of recognition and

photos with important individuals were scattered across my coffee table.

The 47 years of my life were summarized in a pile of images and words.

My life story stared me in the face.

One photograph in particular caught my attention.

It was one in which I was holding a single tomato in one hand and a bucket full of tomatoes in the other.

I was wearing an old blue t-shirt and a pair of shoes that were ripped.

My abuelo, Jose and my siblings stood beside me.

My abuelo posed with his straw hat.

We were all wearing old dirty clothes.

The agricultural field

seemed infinite in the background.

The color of the shirt I was wearing in the photo

was the exact color of the shirt I was wearing as I gazed at the picture at that moment.

I had to smile

thinking about how things in life came full circle.

I was now wearing a blue NASA polo shirt and not an old blue t-shirt.

It dawned on me that there is no secret formula or magic for making dreams come true.

The only way to make a dream come true is to have the passion, the work ethic, and

the foundation of a good education to help

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