Date a man from Bonny Doon, United States. I live simply on a hillside in the Santa Cruz Mountains... from my deck I gaze over coastal forest to the Monterey Bay. I enjoy plants and gardening, hiking Bay Area trails, time spent on horseback, recreational home cooking, grazing in interesting restaurants, road trips (favoring countryside and small towns) and productions of Shakespeare, and have a variety of other enthusiasms that wax and wane.
I have a particular curiosity about life, behavior and the mind, and especially like conversation that extends limits, uncovers new ideas, or reveals fresh ways of thinking about the familiar. I enjoy exploring alternative points of view, and value open-mindedness and flexibility in others... I'm comfortable financially, but not a conspicuous consumer, and have preferred wandering the western states to traveling the globe. I like feeling connected to the environments where I live, knowing them well, and being at home in the changing of the seasons…
I'm looking for a singular friend, companion and lover. She's a bright, curious, thoughtful, playful, honest, responsible, well-educated, financially secure, physically attractive woman, with a variety of interests and a clever mind, who enjoys conversation and shared activities.
She naturally chooses to look deeply into the phenomena of life and the ways we understand them. She trusts that openness, compassion and communication lead to freedom... She treasures nature and the out-of-doors, knows something of wild things and their habits, and often chooses to stand apart from the buzz of commerce and the relentlessly busy.
She's a capable listener with a capacity for empathy, as I am; makes a habit of sincerity; and considers generous sensuality an essential part of life. She takes integrity and earned loyalty for granted, and routinely does things consciously, with an aesthetic and style that is her own. She knows how to welcome solitude and appreciate simplicity. I'd guess she's also somewhat unconventional, and sometimes surprising. Like me, she enjoys her independence and yet hungers for an elemental connection in the center of life. And she likes to hold hands…