The opposite of broken is not fixed—it's connected | Jose Ortega | TEDxMidland

Hi, my name is Jose Ortega and thank you so much for being here today. I'm going to tell you a story, one that's not from a textbook, but from the soils of my own life, of the dirt roads, the sunburnt skies, and a long shadow that was casted of a small West Texas city or town, some might say. My mother, she immigrated from Mexico with nothing but a prayer in her heart and grit in her hands. And she picked melons in Pacus, Texas. She worked the land as if the land owned or something. My father, he was a cons ...