I found myself eating peanuts yesterday as I read Jimmy Carter’s book A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.

I learned that at the age of five, he set up his own business, picking peanuts, boiling them, and packaging them in small bags which he then walked two miles to town to sell.  He was an entrepreneur at five.

NASA is grateful to him for saving the Space Shuttle program which continues to benefit us here on earth.

His words are on the Voyager Golden Record: “This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”