“A lot of people look at it and get overwhelmed,” Mata said. “But what I like to say is just keep pushing through. Keep pushing through, and I promise you the light of the tunnel will be there every time.”
He’s a junior at Pasadena Memorial High School, southeast of Houston. Like most students, Mata spends much of the day in class and extracurricular activities. The rest of his day, though, he spends on the farm.
Lately, that’s meant caring for his pregnant cow…