Bonnie's Medicine Quilt

Bonnie's Medicine Quilt

Comments from Bonnie and others... compiled by Cecilia

Here's a pretty comprehensive site about the "history" of the quilt.

Comments from Bonnie herself about her Medicine Quilt can be found in the Voices of All Peoples section of The Millenium Matters... site.

Am email list reference from Bonnie several months after she received her quilt:
"Radical? Who moi? Um...let's see. I first smoked pot in 1968. I went to anti-war demonstrations in the sixties. I wore bell-bottoms and headbands.
What? You don't mean that stuff?
OK - I have been pregnant and/or breastfeeding since 1981. Yes, since before most of you were born.
Have a boycott Nestle bumper sticker. Have a guy who lives with me and fathered my children who explains the Nestle boycott to guys at the golf course.
Put the first ever family bed info on the Internet.
Go to sleep every night under a quilt made by 56 parent-l women from seven different countries."

Thoughts After Bonnie's Death:
Narelle: "After we heard of her cancer, Lara organised us all to make her a quilt, A Medicine Quilt. We conspired, we co-conspired and we stitched. Bonnie received a huge quilt with all our love. It kept her warm and close but it didn't cure her. Now I imagine it will keep her children warm and close to their mother. Her husband and children need all the warmth and love they can get."

Return to my Bonnie page or to my Parenting Resources page.

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