last updated 12/11/08

a boundless extended-family vision . . .

I am traveling to kitchens, community rooms, and other gathering places in several northeastern states to celebrate NEIGHBORCARE—a joyful band of volunteers offering free-of-charge, health-related assistance to ill, dying, physically challenged_and heartsick_ neighbors (caregivers and caregetters) in thirteen towns on the Blue Hill, Maine peninsula (and beyond) who fall between the cracks of the healthcare system. Surely, all we truly have is how we care for one another.

HomeTalks   offered by maggie davis "Come warm your heart . . ."

Neighborcare (co-founded by me and several others in 1995) evolves in ways that continue to mystify and enliven me. “Our joyful band” is simple, merciful and all-embracing (by choice not 501c3). I am moved to speak of its ongrowing good wherever and whenever I can, and now—mostly—of the truths and practices that embody its great heart.

HomeTalks are fitting for individuals, both lay and professional—including physicians, nurses, social workers, homecare providers, parents, teachers, young people, clergy—who want their caring felt and wish a world for all of us that celebrates diversity as well as deep wellspring connections.

During the HomeTalks, I present practical support for caregivers gleaned from personal caregiving and caregetting experiences, and invite those whose company I’m sharing to convey their own caregiving and caregetting stories.

In addition, if asked, I am happy to. . .

HomeTalks are offered by donation
when arranged in conjunction with programs listed below.
Otherwise they are individually—and always very reasonably—priced. Copies of Caring in Remembered Ways* are available for purchase.

Inquire regarding presentations/workshops/in-service trainings at medical schools, nursing homes, conferences, churches, hospitals, community centers, prisons, etc., also school and library presentations for young people as well as for parents and teachers.
(These make HomeTalks possible!)

*This personal, practical book honors ways of caring the heart knows—deep-seeing ways that go beyond courtesy and kindness and empathy to the living compassion that embraces all the rest. It reminds us that true caring neither starts nor stops at the bedside, but extends to all life. Ways of being as well as ways of caring weave throughout Caring . . . . Surely, who we are colors all we do and give.

maggie davis,  P.O. Box 370, Blue Hill, ME 04614  maggiesdavis@gmail.com  1-207-266-7673