the Awakening to Healing Journey

by Oscar Crawford Photo by Ignacio Campo on Unsplash After completing high school, I thanked my parents for their investment in my development. I left home to pursue the adventure of my life. I went to college for a year. I led an undefeated championship basketball team and became a competent poker player. The next year I was in the Air Force working in a hospital as a medic on a Greek Island. I was there for the next three years. During that time, I traveled Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Germany. Immediately after military service, I became a student at Kentucky State University, in Kentucky’s Capital City of Frankfort. Incidentally, our family’s favorite uncle just happened to be the Vice-President at the time, Dr. Rufu s L. Barfield. Uncle Rufus taught me how to be a critical thinker. He was a second father to me and my siblings. He always challenged me to reach higher to accomplish more. He once said to me, “Oscalee, for the good that I would, I do not: but the e...