As society grows increasingly technological, isolated, and lonely, those who take their caregiving gifts seriously can fill a tremendous void. In Real Love for Real Life, caregivers of all kinds can find the help and hope they need to fulfill their calling. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and thoughtful quotations, Ashworth addresses the practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community-leading readers to a greater understanding of the value and the validity of their call to be caregivers. What if caregiving means giving loving care everywhere and in everything? What if caregiving actually applies to all people of all ages? Ashworth believes it does and shows us how. Her remarkable book has, for many, become the handbook for living a loving, hospitable, caregiving life. For Andi, imaginative care for people and planet is the human mission on earth.