Ever since I started Our Co-Creators, my ethic has been to learn, grow, build and create. I questioned what it is that we create, from community to homes to the many structures and institutions serving our kids.
That communal, experimental, truth-seeking season of my life shaped me in ways I’m still discovering. I did journalism, social media, communication plans, ecovillage visit coordinating, and met many people I wanted to get to know. There are still friendships and relationships from that journey that I have and others that deepened. Others didn’t.
Now, I find myself returning to that ethos. This time not in the form of blog posts, social media or newsletters, but through story.
Things That Need Doin’ (Icelandic Connection, 2026), my newly published short story, may look like fiction, but you don’t have to squint to see characteristics from the earlier journey. There are still shared roots, stubborn hope, longing for place, the evolution of identity, and the mystery of caring for land and each other.
And yeah, Stranger Things vibes too.
There are other ideas bouncing around this space too. Apparently there’s a chaos agent that lives in the fiber of this omniscient internet. Sometimes I get a glimpse of this…greeb. He’s got a thing for media literacy and making it accessible meta, to the younger generation.
Now this site starts to fill with crocodiles, psychic children, and mysterious forests. Once, it held reflections from ecovillages, interviews with changemakers, and shared declarations of what we hoped to build together.
That shift is clearest in The Stinkwater Escapee, my serialized fiction about a crocodile with a burp that changes everything. It’s funny, strange, and deeply personal. It belongs here, in the same way Our Co-Creators once did.
So this post is a bridge.
It’s for those who used to read about Whole Village and Cambia.
For those who sat in living rooms and listened to me read early drafts.
For those curious about where this all fits together.
And for our kids.
The answer is glaringly simple: we start where we are.
Here, on this website, it’s in a garden of galaxies, next to a flowering star.
In stories that shimmer, or burp, or ache.
For it’s story that informs what it is that we create.
🌌 You can explore A Garden of Galaxies over on Substack.
If you’re new, welcome.
If you’ve stayed through the changes, thank you.
Either way, I hope you’ll join me on this next leg of the journey, where fiction comes from new yet old roots, and imagination becomes a kind of co-creation too. Telepathy maybe? Stories will tell.
What will we co-create together?
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H Jacob Buller
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