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Great Carving

from Bury Me Into the Mtn by eleanor murray

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"Knowing man, staying woman
Be a riverbed to the world
Being the world’s riverbed
Of eternal, unfailing power
Is to go back again
To boundlessness

Knowing light, staying dark
Be a pattern to the world
Being the world’s pattern
Of eternal, inexhaustible power
Is to go back again
To be new-born

Just so, a great carving
Is done without cutting"

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(Lyrics are selected phrases from Ursula K. Le Guin's translation of Chapter 28 of the Tao Te Ching)

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from Bury Me Into the Mtn, released July 18, 2013

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eleanor murray Olympia, Washington

Songwriter, producer, and artist Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music out of the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in a genre all its own. Her songs are often structurally complicated, while also sparse and open, full of warmth and light. Each album’s sonic landscape is completely its own. ... more

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