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

Date single man from California, United States. My name is not Ishmael; my parents worked at keeping things ordinary. They thrust into the void a not altogether beamish boy with a monosyllabic name and a pale boneless body incapable of dunking a basketball. I came to learn that this was not an anomaly; most babies can’t dunk. I also gained awareness from my mother’s used book store that helped generate an impulse to write. I therefore, understandably, grew up playing basketball and writing anomalous stories. My mother closed her store when her landlord had the audacity to raise the rent (it had been $100/month for 23 years). Her store not only served as a birthplace of ideas for the entire community, it provided the impetus for me to attend college.
I worked in libraries for a number of years, and I am now working part-time for the local junior college evaluating student placement essays. I am also doing volunteer work. I am on the Steering Committee of the North Bay Sponsoring Committee, a volunteer community organizing group currently made up of religious institutions (although I am not religious) in Sonoma County. We are modeling a new kind of face-to-face politics. We are working with one another and our elected officials to build long-term relationships and to put the Public back in the public life of our communities. We are exercising non-partisan political power to shape public policy for the common good. I am also volunteering with the San Francisco Ballet, an institution that has provided a lifelong inspiration for my daughter, who graduated with degrees in both Dance and Religious Studies from the University of Iowa in December, and who is currently a Trainee with the American Repertory Ballet in Princeton, New Jersey.
There are few activities that give me more pleasure than nudging words across the blankly disquieting page, and pushing clay around, into, and through itself. I have discovered, particularly working with clay, that the end result seldom exactly matches the goal, and that it really doesn’t much matter that it doesn’t. It is the work that matters—the creative process itself—the engagement of my imagination, the intuitive use of my mind and hands. In the end, the artist discovers that clay (any art, really) has a mind of its own, and it is these ongoing series of repeated realizations that enrich my life. As much as any other work that I do, these small transformative journeys carry me joyously forward.
A few things I have learned about women: you love a man who really listens; you love a man who can embellish your movement on a dance floor; you are fond of a man who can chop an onion properly; and you appreciate a man who does not succumb to thrift at inopportune moments. I am the possessor of at least two of these attributes.
Gloria Steinem once said, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” I happen to be fond of both fish and bicycles, but the simile is not lost on me. While it is true that any woman in whom I might be interested could get along perfectly well without me, I am going to persist in seeking a female companion �lovely in her bones;’ someone who appreciates the novelty of life, and who is perhaps a feminine feminist; someone who is enamored of ballet, Kingfishers’ caves, Point Reyes beaches, Latour cheese, Panna cotta from Quota, touch that’s intuitive, and kindness framed by honesty. It would be wonderful if she were able to bring to each conversation, like Dizzy or Miles, a welcoming grace note.
I greatly admire my daughter’s passion in the pursuit of her art form—her resiliency, her ability to persevere, her steadfast determination to become an accomplished performer. It is the joy she projects from the stage as much as the skill and grace of her dancing that moves me. I would very much like to meet a woman who, by virtue of doing the things SHE loves, scatters joy randomly wherever she goes. Perhaps you are she.

Meet people from California, United States. We like to share and enjoy life to its fullest because life is too short! We enjoy dancing, candlelight dinners, movies, good music such as country, blues and some jazz. Walks on the beach, watching the sunset and just spending quality time together. We like hugging, holding hands and looking into each others eyes! She likes to go camping and fishing and enjoys the outdoors!

Date men and women from California, United States. Photography has been my passion for 50 years, especially when traveling in foreign lands. I am very proud of the book of my photographc images i published in 2009.i lov to see new things and capture them digitlaly or on film.

Meet a man from California, United States. Living in Petaluma since the first of the year. I very seldom, if ever, respond to winks or profiles without photos.
Before anything else, most of my photos are about four years old. My main profile photo is from 2009. I will add some more recent images soon. I am now older, grayer, and approximately the same weight. I have lived a full and varied life. I was born and raised in South America and came to the US in my early twenties after spending a few months as a field hand in a couple of Israeli Kibbutzim and later living in an artists' village in central Israel. I settled in NYC where I lived for a few years (during the mid to late '60s) During the next 17 years, I lived mostly in Atlanta, GA, spending some time in Washington DC and Boston, MA. I moved to the Bay Area in 1984 and have been a resident of Marin/Sonoma since. I have been married twice, acquiring two young boys with my second marriage. Made a few mistakes along the way and learned my share of lessons; by the way, school's still on; the lessons keep on coming. In term of looks, I'm reasonably attractive. I'm neither tall nor athletic, but even so, I think I'm quite handsome and sexy. I have brown eyes, light-medium complexion, gray hair and beard. I am warm, affectionate, humorous and playful. My interests include jazz, reading, art, movies/theater, tantra/HAI. Romantic poetry, (Neruda, Garcia Lorca, etc). I'm unpretentious, travel light and prefer simplicity in most everything. I am gentle, considerate and emotionally available. Add to that being an incorrigible romantic., and, as one, I love sharing intimate moments with a lover, be it holding hands, jointly cooking a meal or making passionate love. Looking for a casual relationship, including friendship, intimacy, and sensuality to begin with; beyond that, I'm open to all possibilities.
I prefer women who are independent, strong and self-reliant, and at the same time beautiful and feminine. Must have a terrific sense of humor and be able to laugh at her self. Be down to earth and appreciate simplicity. Be free and at ease in her sexuality. Probably musical/artistic or creative in some way and also have good business sense. Appreciates friendship and genuinely likes men. You have a spiritual bent while at the same time have both feet firmly planted on the physical/material world. I like women who are petite to average (5'0" to 5'8",) weight/height proportional, preferably slender/slim. I believe we all have "issues" and carry some "baggage"; if you deny having either of these, then you are too perfect for me and should stay away. If you are a "Born Again" or other "Super-Christian" type, please don't bother. Others in that category, tongue firmly in cheek here, include: new age bimbos, spiritual divas, evangelical vegetarians and other fringe dwellers such as right or left wing radicals with equally hateful agendas. All of the above should not be considered as strict requirements. It represents mainly a theoretical ideal person. It is highly unlikely that either of us would even come close to finding this ideal being, reality never fulfills the ideal; two people meet and, provided there is a basic attraction, fondness, and empathy, they work with whatever they bring to the party and develop a relationship where differences are as important and joyfully welcome as similarities.
If we click, you MUST BE AVAILABLE to date and spend time getting to know each other.

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