It seems like every neighborhood kid in the Sherman Park neighborhood knows Camille Mays. She gets maternal on the street, asking the boys and girls she encounters what they’re doing and where they’re going. Camille, who grew up in Sherman Park, believes in block-by-block community care. She founded the Peace Garden Project, which brings people together to work on community gardens and small acts of beautification. Many of those projects transform makeshift memorials, impromptu shrines to homicide or car crash victims. Liquor bottles and teddy bears are replaced with perennials and trees. People who work together end up looking after each other, she argues. And those relationships can change a place. Camille’s story turned especially poignant after we talked to her for “This is Milwaukee.” After years of working to comfort families faced with tragedy, after years of attending the funerals for victims of violence, Camille was confronted with a loss of her own. Her 21-year-old son, Darnell Woodard II, was fatally shot in November. Today, she is dedicated to her own healing as well as those around her. She opened our inaugural “This is Milwaukee Talking” by ringing her singing bowl. Here’s a little of what Camille had to say to us last year.