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Date single man from Oakland, United States. The critter man. Mover, former shaker. Outdoor activities move me. Long walks, sexy weekend getaways,sporting events, hikes and trips, especially in natural settings. Casual dinning in all the secret places, and places yet unknown, though especially Chinese.
I love to cook on the weekend. Blueberry pancakes, anybody? A nice Chardonnay, local or up in the Wine Country.(101 sizzling degrees this 4th) Napa Chards. rock, too. Music and movies, cuddling with the Sunday paper on a rainy day. Trips to soak up the arts, and finding that perfect neighborhood bistro in the City, or a terrific B&B in a country setting. Travel to the Rockies or the Hawaiian Islands for those annual healing pilgrimages. Looking for my partner, sidekick, and navigator to show me the way. She would 'look' like someone with a warm smile, good looks, humor, head and heart. I know you are out there, and I am holding a reservation at a place that serves the best scampi in white sauce the world has ever known. Promise.
I've just about run out of photos,(finally you say), to post on my photo gallery. I hope
you enjoyed my trip, or at least were not bored to tears. In a few days I'll settle on
a 'best of' collection, and stick with them. So if you saw anything along the way, and wish to vote for or against any pictures, feel free, your comments will be given due consideration. Some of the changes occured due to comments about showing those peepers, and was welcome feedback. Your patience in allowing me to chronicle the life of my beautiful, dear 107 lb. black lab puppy's life, was appreciated. My partner and best friend passed, and as you can tell, was adored by all. Thanks for stopping by.
BTW The last two pictures of me and two different pooches (the big black Newfi. , and the Ausie), were taken today, 6/2/10. So now you know I look the same as my other, slightly more dated shots. The 'Mountain Man' shot, for instance, was taken on my annual birthday trek, 12/30/09. And I still look the same on those rare, exotic dinner dates. (Me in the grey shirt). Yum. To the dinner date, not the shirt......
update...the new last picture was taken here 6/26, this last Sat. night. I had somebody here to capture a shot of my nightly commune with Big Mike, (little) Fred, and feisty Molly. Left to right. A typical night at the nature preserve.
Then there's the newest update, hot off the press. It's the latest edition to the preserve, the white lab. Rescued just yesterday while visiting a Client, from the wilds of Oakland City Center, dehydrated, disoriented, homeless, severly malnourished, and yet, within a few hours, a bath, and several good meals, and his first night's sleep in weeks, he's already chasing the cats, and extremely interested in eating the raccoons. He has much to learn if he wants to become a member of the nature preserve, but shows considerable posibility as the long awaited replacement for my baby black lab. The black kitty is eyeing him very closely for huggability possibilities, while the raccoons, incl. a brand new Mom and babies joining the regulars, are very concerned about the new guy. Never a dull moment. Wait until he sees the wild turkey, skunks, and deer, then we will find out if he's a keeper. Billie (Boy) Holiday is his prelim. name, as he was certainly singing the blues when I found him, about to be sent to the pound........OH deer! He's met them, last night, Mama Deer not happy. Scratch considerable.
Lastly, since I'm new to Match having just come over from Yahoo, all of my critter shots were taken from my own nature preserve home. These friends all live here, or come by for a cool drink in the creek, and a warm, protected welcome. 'All are welcome here', has always been my motto, but you need to be ok with nature. and then you will be rewarded. Some Girlie Girls, and a few very nice, yet allergic, members had a difficult time with the wilderness, or animals, yet only 12 minutes and 12 miles from the City. (SF, silly.)

Meet people from Oakland, United States. work hard to appreciate vacation or down time.
Bicycling and road trips.
Reading and crosswords
Sunday papers and wine tasting.
Fish and Chips
PBS mysteries
Documentiries
Cats
Conversation versus chat
Pubs versus wine bars

Date a man from Oakland, United States. Empathetic, intensely passionate, very affectionate, very happy disposition. Enjoy spending time with friends and family. Enjoy sincere, fun stimulating conversation. As that is the only you get to know one another.

Meet men and women from Oakland, United States. ex enforcement ,ex military,army
enjoy Recording Motown Music,Movies,Stars,
Crime shows enforcement stories
people protection Surveillance out here in
Oakland Calif. ridding on Bart,A.C.Transit
dropping Dimes on Thugs who do Crimes
on Ladies children.
was in a mixed marriage had 2 teens
she can pass for Denise Williams
it was good
Also into Recording-Photo-Grafting Motown Gospel Music Book-to-Movie Model Dancer Diva Star Moms 55-85
Around Oakland Calif Lakes Parks Marinas Piers
Or Meet at Sr.Centers

Date someone special from Oakland, United States. Its hard to explain this on a site like this but can explain after we meet. I would live for her and I to jell together and to help each other out in life. This will make us find out if we are truly for each other due to time line of life.

Meet a soulmate from Oakland, United States. Want to explore the hills and beaches, go see performing arts, dance in the kitchen? I'm a musician (jazz piano and twango tangos), long-time theater artist, special ed teacher, and bohemian lifer, trying to make a satisfying improvisation on this spinning planet. I love to play, get into a dialogue without a fixed outcome. I wish to find a life-partnership/ marriage with a fairly calm expressive woman who can talk and listen, to discover a new story between us. I like to explore and wander, like to look at new things with a partner, like to cuddle up. I think paying attention to what draws you can teach you a lot about yourself.
If it matters, I am 5'11", 168 lbs, culturally Jewish, in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in. Want to share affection, wackiness, kindness... “Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness” says Louise Erdrich. Know what I mean? The pic is me agog in winter wonder.
And finally a little poem I wrote recently about persistence in the quest for love:
Veteran's Day
For those still clinging tightly to the nightie of Merciless Aphrodite
We present this rusty purple heart pinned neatly through your left nipple
In recognition of your bravery in the wars of love.
While many turned and ran and many more just turned on the TV
You took the high heat from Cupid's missiles and kept on swinging
Bloody but game.

Date single man from Arkansas, United States. I'm entrepreneurial minded and have worked in a variety of industries with companies that range in size from start-up to large. As a result, I love challenges and learning new things as it calls for energy, enthusiasm, adaptability and creativity.
Discussions on a range of topics (sexuality and relationships, politics, religion are favorites) are a source of pleasure, as is NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, writing, swimming, hiking, cooking (a range of ethnicities), reading, art, diverse company and a glass of wine.
My work has often provided me a tumbleweed-like existence for a few years. I’m normally in the Bay Area but have spent time elsewhere. On g_mail I am 510tumbleweed
I recently concluded a long relationship and am back in the dating pool as I figure some things out. I'm kind, funny (if you like dry wit), friendly, affectionate, honest, direct, optimistic yet realistic, and a practical idealist. I am a sensual and attentive lover.
I have two wonderful kids and am a good and loving father. Both graduated from college and each is charting their path.
What else might be of interest? Originally from the Midwest, I’ve been in the Bay Area for 25 years. I weigh about 170lbs, look as much as 15 years younger than I am and am fit: I enjoy swimming butterfly, freestyle and in open water (recently went 4.5 miles--my limit). Personality: someone who is optimistic, lively, a good communicator and conversationalist, literate, kind, thoughtful, has a wry sense of humor and grace. Physical: Fit and attractive without having to work hard at it. Inner beauty is vital, being a babe is gravy! :-) I'm interested in friendship and/or non-exclusive dating for now but I anticipate being open to an exclusive relationship. On g_mail I am 510tumbleweed
NPR recently discussed Six-Word Memoirs. Here's the description: "When asked to sum up his life in six words, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt came up with the following: "The miserable childhood leads to royalties." McCourt's micro-memoir is among the many collected in a new book "It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure." We'll talk to the Smith Magazine editors who compiled the volume, and we want to hear your six-word memoir."
As I thought about it, I decided "Sought love and learning, mostly found” would be mine.
What might yours be?
UPDATE: I plan to let my subscription lapse when its up at end of March. As a result, contact me via g_mail, as I may be unable to respond to winks and messages.

Meet people from Arkansas, United States. HI ! im just another complicated man ! just kidding ! we are really quite simple. you are the smart ones ! the perceptive ones ! im looking for friendship and dating- evoving into love and caring for each other ..stickin together.. always keep the fire burnin ! ....i like kids and would consider having one w/ somebody .....i like baseball... football .... ... kids .....dogs ......birds .....mother nature . i like being outdoors on a beautiful day ....... love alemeda beaches ....or hikin the oakland hills ..........i enjoy golf....... bowling .....my passions are : MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY .........and possibly .....YOU !

Date a man from Arkansas, United States. I have an enormous, welcoming heart. I am romantic, compassionate, extremely ethical, affectionate, generous, well-educated, philosophical, playful, intellectual (opinions may differ), idealistic, Spartan, hopeful, and flawed (as I expect you to be).
I am a man's man: skilled with tools and machinery, self-reliant, uncomfortable with pretense, protective of women and the disadvantaged, rugged, and careful with my integrity.
I am warm, open, and vulnerable with a woman whose intelligence, grace, courage, compassion, insight, warmth, openess, vulnerability, beauty or a thousand other qualities stimulate me. I am very tactile and love the touch of a woman. I am a promiscuous hugger and a devotee of snuggling.
I have a hyper-active and often self-deprecating sense of humor. My curiosity is boundless and undisciplined. I have rural mid-western sensibilities about courtesy, honor, respect, and civility. I am idealisitic, but very, very experienced. I believe that full disclosure is essential to a healthy romantic relationship. I strive to keep my romantic interactions with women consistent with my emotional commitment. When dancing the exploratory hours, days, or months with a woman, I prefer to establish grounds for friendship first.
I am certified child and pet friendly, having raised many myself, including dogs, cats, a mouse, a rat, and a lizard; oh yeah, and one twenty-two year old son, who is at UCLA. He was selected the Most Outstanding Junior Male at his high school by the faculty. Those of you who have raised kids know that worse things happen. In fact, he did accomplish worse things, which I will happily share.
I am very interested in public policy and a keen observer of the political world. I enjoy discussion, not argument. I have a 360 degree view of the world and of the people in it. I see your point of view and mine. I prefer a collaborative discussion that moves us forward using two minds, mine and yours, rather than some contest of wills, egos, or ideology.
I am an energetic and dedicated conservationist and careful to live lightly on the earth. I am also a car nut and have a 40 year old sports car. Driving it is sensuous and thrilling, and I am an intense and joyful driver.
I hike several times a week in the Oakland hills. I love the snow, the mountains, and winter sports: both nordic and (somewhat less) alpine skiing.
I am a self-employed professional, financially stable, and live in a condominium that I own near Lake Merritt in Oakland. I also own a cabin at 7000 feet near Bear Valley and rental property in Monterey.
I am looking for a teammate, an ally, a partner; a compassionate, empathetic, and scrupulously honest woman, who offers similar or complementary qualities/tendencies. I hope she will be intelligent, wise, energetic,very affectionate, passionate, athletic, active, and alert to the positive in life and nature. I hope she will be at peace with herself, her body, and her expressions of romance. I hope she will be sensitive to the earth and to her fellow travelers on this journey.

Meet men and women from Arkansas, United States. MY GRATEFUL FOR MY FAMILY, AND MY DOCTORS. I WOULD LIKE FOR SOMEONE TAKE ME OUT OF THIS LONELINESS LIFE.FOR 8 YEARS I BEEN SO LONELY SO ITS TIME TO LOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO IS NICE AND FUN TO BE WITH A NICE PERSONALITY.

Date someone special from Arkansas, United States. Iam the type of guy that keep things simple and know how to Live; laugh, and have fun in life. I have traveled around the country and I have seen people that do not know how to live and enjoy Life. Looking at this I said to myself that I will live life like the day was the last day of my life. Now that is to say with regards to what I hope to do in life.

Meet a soulmate from Arkansas, United States. John Donne was wrong when he said that no man is an island. We are all islands in the stream. It's how we bridge the interstitial gaps between islands that marks the measure of our character. Noblesse oblige is not a function of a robber baron in our past. It is a function of the elegance of our thought process as evidenced by how well we dance with, and thru, the rest of the world. In the overall scheme of things (world balance), how well we move in our own social circles counts for little. Racking up brownie points for being nice to, and grooving with, people who are nice to us, is a no-brainer.
In every wolf pack there is an alpha couple. But it is always the breeding / alpha female who chooses, and so, designates, the alpha male with whom she will mate. Not the other way around. The ego of the human male being what it is, most men think they are the one doing the choosing. Right! That said, a beautifully wrapped package doesn't mean much if the package is empty: a high order of intelligence would not be sneezed at...
Every man who has ever truly loved a woman comes to believe that she is the Holy Grail from which salvation is drunk; that her body is the sanctum sanctorum of the Religion of the Love of Milady; that touching her spirit is to divine the Oracle at Delphi, and that a mind-walk with her is akin to experiencing all the colors of the visual spectrum. As well, he knows that if the Infinite Almighty was a woman, his beloved would be more endlessly beautiful and more effortlessly elegant than God who, after all, conjures simply because She must (job description).
Love is less about what you're certain you must have in a mate, than what you ultimately realize you can't live without (eg. honesty, honor, intelligence, absolute trust, etc). In any viable relationship each has the unquestioned right to ask for, in return, everything that he or she brings to the relationship. And then Unconditional Love, of course, blows all such cherished notions into a cocked hat and we find ourselves willing to ask for almost nothing and give almost everything. I have twice survived the very lonely journey to and from The Land of The Broken Heart. Love, which, by definition, is always mutual, always seeks its own level and is quite akin to nap-of-the-earth flying in a tactical military jet on afterburner.
I believe in the concept of woman as goddess, in theory and in practice. Not to the point that a man becomes obsessive, expecting perfection, but to the point that he owes her, and shows her, complete respect and the previously mentioned unconditional love. She has, after all, willingly agreed to become his other half (if he is fortunate). Like the flames of two candles joined together, you burn as one, with neither consumed by the other.
A bit about me: I was born on the bosom of the Mother Ocean in Micronesia back when U.S. FedGov was vaporizing islands with thermonuclear weapons. I am possessed of a fairly agile, wide-ranging intellect and a dry, gentle, impudent wit. I find that, as I mature, I become more patient with other people and, surprisingly, with myself. I seek internal peace in the swirling vortex of the external tempest. Once upon a time I was shy but it was so long ago that I have quite forgotten when it was that I talked myself out of that deplorable state of affairs.
I am personally conservative but, interpersonally, quite liberal. My operational theory for living a decent life is that if you have not been or said or done anything to cause deliberate harm to an innocent being then you are on the right track and have nothing to apologize for, nothing to explain, nothing to hide or hide from, and nothing to fear. Within these constraints we are all, otherwise, completely free...
The jeans-and-white-shirt photo is from November 2011. Most folks think I look ten years or so younger than my actual age (must be the preservatives in our food). Thanks for stopping by and good fortune in your search.