Cross-country crosswords

Doing crosswords across the country.  Last night, Dulu and I in Boston and Mery, Mejo and Duru out in Holland, Michigan. They've still got snow but we've lost ours. We're still cold but they've warmed up. Finding a crossword website, printing out the sheets, putting the phone on broadcast, then going to work: one down, 5 across, what is a three letter for 'necessary to tango', can't be 'foil', never would have thought of that, good for you, what's a...?, "hamburgers near the mouth? huh? and so on through three rounds, and all of this at 900 miles distance. I'm amazed. Low cost long distance phone, crossword puzzles on a shared internet and something like a party can happen, full of high hilarity and that wonderful end-of-evening-as-off-to-bed glow.  Next week, same time, why not? 

Of course, to see the others, share goodies, hug them before they go is so much better but this was not nothing. There was real engagement, real surprises exploded, minds leveraged each other, the laughter was spontaneous, the silences were of thinking, answers popped into our heads like bubbles in champagne. It was altogether fun. Distance melted like snow in rain; no, it was gone as soon as we began. A world without separation. My mind is boggling, or maybe just jiggling or flapping after last night's exertion. Oh, Holland guys, oh, we between whom so many miles intervene, let's do it again.