Passionate immersions in nature-cultures of the everyday

For some, the provocation of the era of the Anthropocene demands ethical, nature-culture responses that develop new pathways of thinking and an attentiveness to how knowledge and learning is co-constituted. There has been a call for scholarly work that develops "passionate immersions" in our multi-species world. But how does one do this, I wonder? How can we come to new ethical responses of being, knowing and doing? Where should one even start? In this chapter I share my learning endeavours in working through these questions, deploying a critical creative/cultural writing methodology. I start where I am situated, embodied in my place of the everyday, thinking deeply about where I have come from, my family connections to place and the implications for knowledge creation. Through considerations of family relationships to rivers and eels beyond local river systems and waterways, I will explore family histories and aquatic journeys, mixing biology and cultural studies. I will investigate learning systems and remaking relationships through immersion in familiar places. This process has brought to life a whole range of new notions about what it is to think, write and research and be situated and attuned to nature-cultures of the everyday.