Date men from United States / California / El Cerrito, 60 year old

Date a soulmate from California, United States. I am a teacher and a lifelong learner, curious, passionate, playful and eager to share my life and experiences with someone of similar interests and range. I am as clear about my identity as a thoughtful person has a right to be. I am a bit eccentric, somewhat professorial, and like to dress well. I am faithful, and patient, and have never cheated on a woman. I am a happy, optimistic person who enjoys life thoroughly.
You are a beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive, confident, uninhibited, passionate, tolerant woman near my age and experience with an equally broad mind, curiosity and range of interests. I am looking for a woman who can be as silly as I can sometimes, but who doesn't get bored or anxious when the conversation gets serious, and who loves kissing, and holding and being held, and all of the sweetness that grows out of those things as much as I do.
I am fortunate to be employed at a small, college-preparatory, teacher-run, private high school, and to work with the sweetest group of adolescents on the planet. My students describe my courses as hard, yet worth taking, my sense of humor as wickedly funny. I’m passionate about the subjects I teach and continue to study: philosophy, literature, history and saber fencing. Aside from raising my three wonderful daughters, my greatest achievements have always been in the classroom, when I see my students catch fire over the ideas we discuss.
Aside from my primary passion, teaching, my passions include music, movies (documentary as well as dramatic), travel, politics, history, and literature. I love many kinds of music including blues, contemporary rock, traditional and contemporary jazz, classical, baroque, Irish and early music.You are as likely to find me in a club rocking out to a reggae band as in a lecture on philosophy or politics. I love living in the bay area! I’ve recently taken up the bass guitar and love its thundering sonorous sound. I also love sea kayaking in particular the scary overwhelming thrill of sea-swell rolling under my boat.
I am very visually oriented. Before I became a teacher I worked for a long time in theater as a lighting designer in a company which was dedicated to providing plays which were visually beautiful as well as challenging. (Our company motto was "difficult plays for difficult people.") One of the reasons I love the Bay Area, Paris, the Sierras and the California Coast is because of the constantly changing, beautiful light.
My politics are leftist: democratic (with a small d), feminist and social-justice oriented. My birth family is military, and right-wing, and pretty much rejects everything I stand for, so I have founded my own family. I have three accomplished daughters and two intelligent, beautiful grandchildren who I hope to be able to share with the right woman. One of my photos shows me with all of my descendants on my oldest daughter's front porch in Portland Oregon. That's the only dated photo (three years old), by the way, the others are from the past six months.
If you worry about the status 'separated,' my separation is final and irrevocable and was chosen after a long and careful deliberation about a marriage that was not sustainable. Divorce is on the way; a return to the marriage will never happen.
I hope to meet a sensual, serious, witty, passionate, tolerant woman (Did I already cover this?)with a good sense of humor, who will share my interests and hers with me, one who is unfettered by superstitions and inhibitions, who also loves to travel and to read and learn. Am I asking too much? Am I offering too little? Is this thing on?

Meet a man from California, United States. I am a romantic with a touch of realist and seek a friend, a partner, a lover with whom I have a certain amount in common and some stimulating differences; someone who has the capacity to have a meaningful, and close relationship at every level. I’m a very loving, affectionate, passionate, and sensual guy and seek the same from my partner. Ultimately, I need to be with a woman who brings out the best in me and I in her. For me, this can be achieved first of all, through a strong friendship that is filled with mutual attraction, fondness, admiration and trust. Secondly, by treating each other with kindness, consideration, common courtesy, and respect~ lastly; by having that all important communication factor, willingness to forgive and move on and by honoring each other as-is.
Meanwhile, I have so much gratitude for all the wonderful adventures, loves and quests. Family, art, stimulating and progressive conversations, great Jazz, R&;B, and World music, hikes everywhere, native peoples, sophisticated cities, great food, closeness of a warm body, Art of all kinds, and wild and free spirited people.
Now for the facts: I just moved back to the East Bay and loving it! I am a liberal and mindful person, studied and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute years ago. Today, I’m a photographer and continue to enjoy making art. I have worked in the creative arts most of my career and most recently a Realtor. I have been having fun hanging out with my two lovely grown daughters who live here in the Bay area. They are getting a chance to get to know their father as a single guy, I think they think I'm pretty cool~