Date women from United States / Arizona / Rio Rico, 57 year old

Date a soulmate from Arizona, United States. I grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but have spent most of my life in the high desert of Colorado, where the big skies and the dramatic land forms, with shades of red and gold and browns, are punctuated with the greens of the pinon and juniper. I raised my children in Colorado and we had the Rocky Mountains and the canyons of Utah, and Colorado River at our back door. Landscape has certainly had its influence on who I am.
For the last six years I have been teaching school in a small town in southern AZ. I love it. I play tennis once or twice a week and just recently have purchased a bike. I am gradually increasing my range and trying to remember, or convince myself, to wear the helmet. I grew up in a literary family and an open book on the coffee table and one on the night stand is part of what life looks like for me..
I am a positive person and would want my match to be the same. I give most people the benefit of the doubt and am easy going and easy to get along with. I find joy in little wonders and I find wonderment in little joys. This sounds so corny, I know.
I'd love to meet someone to goof with, to share food and wine with, to explore with, to play with, to share ideas and evenings with, to laugh with, to make love with. I am looking for a partner in life and would like my match to ...rock my gypsy soul...and relate to the the characteristics of what I appreciate.
I appreciate:
givers for a better good and an instinct to act with compassion;
a reader of books and a listener to the world's music;
a taster of tapas and an embracer of life's surprises;
a guardian of our earth and an appreciator of art;
a lover of family and a tender of friends;
a walker of paths and a paddler of rivers;
a critical thinker and a care taker with words;
an easy laugh and a shameless cry;