Rounding Third and Finally Home: An Educator’s Life Journey of Triumph Over Failure

As an impoverished child, Pascual Rodriguez overcame numerous challenges that helped construct the building blocks of perseverance by convincing himself that “this isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.” It was this mindset that set the platform of seeing the silver-lining in every storm and directing his attention to the good of what’s to come from an undesirable and uncontrollable situation. Life wasn’t over, just redirected; dreams weren’t broken, just redefined; love wasn’t absent, just reintroduced.