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Why We Are Called BlueDog &
Our Love for the Dog
We called ourselves BlueDog because the Dog is a sacred, loyal animal who has chosen to work and live with humans, more so than nearly any other animal. We consider that no small sacrifice and no small gift. Historically, the Wolf was Teacher and Brother to ancient people because Wolf society was an example to man of how to live in a family-tribal structure.   

Though your beauty &

Delight are here

Know solutions as

Clues to Our Origin
Berkeley professor says 160,000-year-old remains found in Ethiopia lend weight to humans' roots in Africa. The skulls of two adults and a child may likely be near ancestors of a primeval but very human Adam and Eve who roamed the lush shoreline of the lake and nearby hills and savanna, slaying hippos and crocodiles for meat.  

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Mawu
The Incredible Traveling Embodiment
So.....I'm on my way up to Sebastopol to study the work of Archeologist Marija Gimbutas with my teacher Joan. I've been turned on to the Neolithic art that was illuminated by Gimbutas' intense scholarship, which appears to depict the sacredness of the female body. Symbols on the artifacts include sublime swirls, meandering chevrons and pelvic triangles. The study of this art is part of my graduate work...   

Interface
Oblivion

Wonderful poetics team up with trance groove tracks forming fantastic sounds. Their entire album is available for free download on their website, asking only to support them by purchasing their CD, if you can.

Metamorphosys

My people can't see that we're walking in circles like nomads in a foreign land In boxes in bubbles like oxen we'll work so hard Idealistic visions of a world removed from separation In darkness, indifference, we'll all have our conflicts and our weakness Look within at your own divination and you'll see that we're all one. Like insects, shedding our skins What kind of insect trap have we gotten ourselves in? Metamorphosis given us wings! What do we do with them why have they given us these things? Adapting to infinity and the energy therein Until the boundaries between us start to wear thin Waiting, wanting something solid to stand on I'm getting anxious, feeling restless. I'm aching with laughter Awaiting disaster. © Interface Oblivion

Madonna - American Girl
Madonna makes a point with her racy and provocative American Girl video.  Originally slated for release during the Iraqi war, this video never found its way to MTV. According to madonna.com, she stated the material in the video was inappropriate during "the times at hand."  This copy of the video - recorded from a foreign television station - was posted on several websites for weeks, before it was removed. 

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Photography & Wallpapers
Check out some of these photographs, taken at various locations around the Bay Area.  These also make excellent Desktop Wallpaper for your computer, and hey, they're just cool to look at!

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Hellhounds in Action!
See what's for breakfast! A short and amusing clip of our wonderful dogs, Ra & Grainne, snacking on a log.

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My Teacher Was a Tarantula
Recently, I had the opportunity to rescue a tarantula. He came to me, incredibly pissed-off, in a peanut jar. A friend found him walking across the road in a hotter part of the state and decided to catch him. I happened to be there when he brought him home. There he was, large, hairy, and scared, propped up, pink fangs exposed, stuck in a jar too small to even put down all eight legs....

Welcome Baby Ele!

April 14th, 2003

The world needs you.
Blessed Be!

Is This Globular Cluster our Ancestor?
You are looking at about a half million stars orbiting their own center. This phenomena of gravitationally bound concentrations of stars, is called a Globular Cluster. This one is M13 and is visible in the Hercules system. M13 is actually moving away from our point in space toward what the astronomers call the "Galactic Center" of the Universe...

Mt. Shasta: Experiencing Ascension
During last October's full moon, my friend Aphrodite dragged me by the hand to a healer's conference in Mt. Shasta. It's funny how we resist the very thing we need. And boy, did I whine! "I can't go because of money, of time, of the inconvenience...," and my now famous and laughable temper tantrum of the xenophobe, "If I get abducted by aliens, I'm never gonna talk to you again."

Winter Solstice 2001 -
A Timeless Millennium Message
What an exciting time to be alive. And an exhausting one! If you are like us, you've experienced some of the deepest disappointments of your life, as well as some of the most awe inspiring epiphanies. The old paradigm is dying and something new and wonderful is being born. We are witnessing this in our personal lives, as well as collectively.