Date men and women from United States / California / Thousand Oaks, 69 year old

Date men and women from California, United States. Why does the site require 200 characters? I'm just one of them,Hahaha.
Well, I've been told better in person than in photos, women mostly pleased on how i treat them.
Issue I have is women posting photos that are not current by several years very dissapointing.
Like just down to earth woman that respects herself and others. Naturally sexy, not a lot of makeup, likes to dance, watch some sports live or TV, and is young at heart.

Meet single man from California, United States. As I completed my undergraduate college degree, I married my high school sweetheart and we had two beautiful children. Both children are now married and have families of their own as you can see in the photos I have posted. My first wife and I grew apart after almost 20 years of marriage and the split was amiable. I remained single for almost 10 years and then fell in love with a most wonderful woman and we married in 1996. For 14 years we lived and loved an idyllic life, but as fate would have it, she died at age 61 unexpectedly almost 2 years ago. So... here I am... in the Golden Years of my life and it's not at all what I thought it would be...
With the love and help of family, friends and special friends in a care group sponsored by the Hospice of the Conejo, I am realizing that life, my life specifically, will go on. I am a people person and I am lonely. I want to be loved and appreciated and I want to be important, that special kind of "important" to someone - again. I am a physical person and I want a woman to love and hold and hug and kiss and touch and cuddle. I am a verbal person and I want to fall in love again and look at that woman and tell her that I love and adore her. I want to bring her flowers and/or a silly trinket for no special occasion at all except that she's important to me and loved by me.
Let's face it... I am me - I'm going to be me for the rest of my life. I am not perfect and I am not expecting to find a woman that is perfect. I love women who are secure in their own skin, happy with the way they are, can be themselves, and be willing and able to give to a man who can appreciate them. I love to care for a woman and give, give, give without expectations. I'm not the guy who trots around in a tank top and Speedos and sweats his way through a marathon just to try to re-grasp fading youth. I am 68-years-old and as you can see in the photos, I'm not a small person - never have been - never will be - I've always been tagged with the persona and looks of a teddy bear and I'm comfortable in that skin.
I love to cook and I love to be cooked for and both of those endeavors offer great opportunity to enjoy fine wines. My friends and family have always enjoyed the food, drinks and ambiance at Chez Willy's!
Touch... human touch... I am a touch fanatic! I want a woman who loves to be touched and rubbed and caressed and loves to be the touch-er as well as the touch-ee. When my wife was alive, and now when my daughter comes to visit and we get the grandsons to bed... a perfect evening is being plunked on the couch with each other's feet in each other's laps giving simultaneous peppermint foot lotion rubs while we listen to music and talk and rub and talk and rub... until all hours! I have a framed Peanuts cartoon strip in the hallway showing Lucy rubbing Snoopy's head and when she quits, she walks away saying, "Well, you can't expect me to do that forever!" Snoopy's response is "Well, you could just do it until your arms fall off!"
Music... the sound of music... I especially love smooth jazz, light classical, new age, piano, sax, instrumentals, most of the younger singer/songwriters like Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Colbie Caillet, Ray LaMontagne, Amos Lee, Leona Lewis etc. and old standbys like Celine, Josh Groban, Diana Krall, Leonard Cohen, Moody Blues, Neil Diamond, Dave Koz, Bonie James, etc. Love attending live concerts at the Greek and S.B. Bowl and Hollywood Bowl and theater plays, especially big production musicals, i.e., Phantom, Annie, 42nd St., Chorus Line.

Date a man from California, United States. someone to go to dinner and dancing or just share conversation. I would like someone who has the time,energy and desire to be alive again. I'm not looking for a wife just someone that would enjoy a man opening a door,pulling out a chair or telling you how beautiful you look tonight..