Spring didn’t disappear.
It just didn’t come
the way we expected.
When a season skips the soft part,
you feel it.
Not just outside—
but in the rhythm
you thought you could rely on.
The easing in.
The gradual shift.
When that doesn’t come—
it exposes how much
you depended on it.
A gardener planted in winter,
trusting the slow rise of spring.
Cool air.
Gentle sun.
Time to root deep.
But the heat came early.
The winter crops
didn’t get their moment—
and they faded.
At the same time,
the warmer crops surged forward.
Faster than expected.
Stronger than planned.
Nothing was wrong.
The rhythm
had just changed.
There was a time
when I didn’t question heat.
Seventeen and a half years
in the desert will do that.
In Phoenix,
you brace for summer.
So when the equinox hit ninety-one degrees
in San Diego—
I recognized it.
“What happened to spring?” people asked.
I saw it in my garden.
The winter vegetables didn’t fail—
the season shifted.
And the spring crops accelerated.
Balance isn’t given.
It’s held.
Some things
won’t survive the shift.
Some things
will rise because of it.
Maybe spring didn’t disappear.
Maybe now—
it lives within us.
And the question becomes:
Can you stay balanced
when everything around you
isn’t?
You don’t control the season.
You meet it.
And when the rhythm changes—
your stability is not found
in what should have happened…
but in how you hold yourself
inside what did

The Space
Not a storefront.
Not a schedule.
Just something you return to
when it calls you back.
© Rabbit’s Warren “All things made with intention”
“No gatekeepers. Just paths.”