Hello! My name is Kimberly and I am the wrangler for this first hop of 2023. What follows is the guidance I gave our hoppers.

Topic: Beginning Again

For this year's Imbolc Hop, I propose the topic of Beginning Again. While brainstorming, I thought of spring cleaning which is a popular topic this time of year, but felt the built in associations may impose false limitations. Then in Allison Cross’s A Year With The Wildwood, I saw the suggestion of “spring cleaning the mind” which opened up that idea to wider possibilities but also felt too specific. Then I got to thinking about why we spring clean—to clean the slate, to get a fresh start.. Then I thought of the cyclical nature of how we do this again and again every year. So we’re not just beginning anew, but “beginning again.” I am sharing this process with you so that if the final topic proposal of “beginning again” doesn’t spark an idea for you, maybe something about the path that brought me there will.

If you’ve found your way to this page, you probably already know that you can navigate from blog post to blog post from the previous/master/next links at the top or bottom of any post in this hop. Here is the master list of all our hoppers for this round with links to their Imbolc 2023 posts:

1. Raine Clara Shakti
2. Koneta Bailey
3. Jay Cassels
4. Kimberly Essex
5. Joy Vernon

Please take your time to enjoy each of the blog posts. All of us hoppers love to hear from you, so leave us some comments if you can!

Imbolc blessings to you!

xo
kim