We Are One Tribe by Laurie Marshall

Artist/ educator Laurie Marshall brought a sculpture called "We Are One Tribe" into Melanie Moffet's English class in rural Virginia. She asked the students to write about the idea of "One Tribe". In 30 minutes, Melanie wrote this amazing poem. Laurie asked Carol Lucking to turn it into a song, which now accompany Laurie's oil paintings in a multi-media dance/drama called "Stories from the Dust in the Corner". The play celebrates the lives of three women who each met death in their own courageous way: Mythili Nakirran of India, Amira Skalijic of Bosnia and Alice Marshall of America. We all turn into dust, and dust always comes back. Instrumentation by Lorraine Duisit and Tom Espinola

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Video
• Multi Media Performance
• peace
• unity
• paintings
• landscape
• portraits
• youth
• Laurie Marshall
• death
• war
• acoustic music

[sarahtwotwo]

Melanie is my mom she made the poem in english class and it got turned into this song

[lmarsh55]

@sarahtwotwo Your mom is a genius. I'm so happy to meet you and for you to know the great wisdom and beauty your mom brought to the world. I still say her poem, which I've memorized, to my students. I asked Carol Lucking to turn it into a song, and she did. Where do you all live now?

[sarahtwotwo]

@lmarsh55 KW kitchener, waterloo

[lmarsh55]

@sarahtwotwo I don't know where that is. Is it in Warrenton? I live in Novato, California, north of Novato. Give you mom a big hug for me. I hope you saw your mom credited for the poem at the end of the video.

[MichaelManners101]

Alas when one looks afield! Such a general level and aspect, such a rush for the necessary and obvious; so little appreciation of pause, envisagement and personal distinction! Yet these things are but phases and relative; the whole is divinely moved and needs but the sounding mood, the penetrating eye, to divine its high and sufficient purposes. The life is justified of its being." Edwin Manners, April 7 1910

[lmarsh55]

@MichaelManners101

And that is why we meditate and dream and make art and children. AHO!

[sarahtwotwo]

it is in ONT

[MichaelManners101]

Lovely video!

"The masses seem to be moving up, whilst the classes, their monitors and inspiration, are in a measure being sacrificed. Yet there is a wide perceptible gain, and there will always be light-bearers, certain choice spirits of culture to carry on the nobler traditions and best thoughts. Perhaps they are commonly not prized, but they have their secret recompense. They are the very salt of society and do indeed savor and retrieve the mass. .....