25 Years of Healthy Intentions: Ruscombe Marks a Milestone

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4801 Yellowwood Ave. as it appears today. The Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center has been housed here for 25 years.

What Baltimore landmark connects William Penn, William Donald Schaefer, Leon Fleischer, Barbara Mikulski, and one of Baltimore’s “Top Docs” for 2008? Answer: The Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center, which in September celebrates its 25th year as a holistic center at 4801 Yellowwood Avenue in northwest Baltimore. Continue reading “25 Years of Healthy Intentions: Ruscombe Marks a Milestone”

This Awesome Body

There is this children’s picture book series about a magic school bus taking a class and her teacher to various places like the solar system, inside a volcano, a beehive, and the human body. I read the human body book. I remember the colorful pictures, the funny comments (at least for somebody who thinks 3rd grade jokes are funny), the logical flow of the book: food is eaten, digested, absorbed; air is inhaled, oxygen is used carbondioxyde is eliminated, etc. I still remember this because it left me with a sense of void. Here is a funny description of a human body dissected into organs that perform biochemical processes. This leaves no room for wonder, magic, awe. Continue reading “This Awesome Body”