{"id":20811,"date":"2018-03-10T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=20811"},"modified":"2018-03-10T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:56:43","slug":"cabin-fever-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2018\/03\/10\/cabin-fever-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabin Fever Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Lars Myregrund<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

If you didn’t make it to NCPR’s 50th<\/sup> Anniversary Open House, you missed a pretty good bash. Thanks to the hundreds who did drop by. It made a great break from Cabin Fever season.<\/p>\n

And if you were yacking it up down near the station kitchen you might have missed the fact that we also held a Cabin Fever Reading Call-in<\/a> down in the broadcast wing from 10 to noon. By this time in the long arc or winter, reading is about all I want to do. It’s not too late to get your own picks on the list.<\/p>\n

But now the party’s over and it’s back to seemingly endless grind of grey and snow and too little light that must be endured before spring really comes. Here’s a poem for Cabin Fever season.<\/p>\n

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March Light<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the equinox, I just want it to be over. What amusement
\npolar cold and darkness provides has paled. I neglect
\nshaving and wear pajamas late into the day, grunt replies
\nto the TV and eat chips while the laugh track sounds.<\/p>\n

Cabin fever. The sky hangs so low you could whack it with a cane.
\nIt’s above freezing for the moment. I can tell by the annoying
\nplop, plop, plop between the windows where the ice dam
\noverhangs. No way in hell I’m climbing up to chop the eaves.<\/p>\n

What difference would it make? Weeks of freeze and thaw remain
\nwhile the jet stream staggers no-man’s land between warring fronts.
\nI might stir myself to salt the steps again, not that I plan on going
\nanywhere. Just something to do — for insurance purposes, say.<\/p>\n

Out the window it will do whatever; I’ve gotten used to it.
\nThe light comes, the light goes. It makes no mark on the weather
\nin my head. If someone asked what superpower I would choose,
\nat this moment, I would have to go with hibernation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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