notes from a talk by Lupa

-ecopsychology - proof nature calms people down, etc

-bioregions rather than human-defined boundaries ("I live in X watershed")

think about the land where you are, start with the land, then the waterways, and then plants, then animals.

a region can be urbanized but still carry the affects of what lived there for tens of thousands of years before the city was founded, esp since settlement in this area is so new.

crows, scrubjays... salmon?

want to know what's important to the ecosystem? look to see what people cleaning the waterways are doing

If you had to give your home a mascot, what would it be? What calls your attention? Even if its not there anymore, if it used to be, the totem might still be hanging around. (Working with wild totems can help with learning rewilding-type survival skills.)

blog post - who I am in Portland, and the spirits I work with here, are not the same as who I was and worked with in Phoenix