I am a seeker. If that sounds too artsy fartsy or new age, too bad. I have spent my life searching, and seeking, and learning.
And I am as curious now as I was when I started.
Everything fascinates me, from the obvious to the obscure. How people think and feel is endlessly interesting to me.
I want love, and I have lots of love to give. I want sex, lots of it, but in the context of love or at least affection. You can trust me, my word is good. I rarely if ever lie.
I am kind and patient, and I like to see people succeed for their own sakes. I like to help, and will gladly help if you ask. I see men and women as cooperators not competitors. I want to see those I love be happy, and I will try very hard to help make that happen.
I have been divorced for a long time; I raised my son alone.
He is now grown, graduated, and married and I am very proud of the good man he has become.
I was a teacher for many years, then gave up teaching to take care of my mother full-time for 6 years, she has severe Alzheimer's. Now I am looking for a job in a government health field, taking civil service exams, etc.
I hope to meet some special man on this site. I am willing to work very hard to ensure a great relationship with the right person. I will never ask more than I give myself, and a relationship with me will be equal and respectful.

More later.

Singing in three choirs/choruses
Taking care of my extended family
Finished writing a small book and submitting it; little hope of publishing it but keeping a good thought
Looking for another job
Cultivating new friends
And doing what I always do,--reading, writing, art, music, history, anthropology, genetics, child development, and that's enough for now

listening to people
empathizing with their feelings
being compassionate
helping out when needed
loving
protecting
writing
drawing
singing
design
gardening
understanding where you're coming from
making people laugh and feel better
hope
comparative religions
cooking
caring for children
caring for everyone
observing
finding the quiet places

sort of long hair
soft voice
long fingers
my full lips and my smile

Kipling, Steinbeck, Cather, Lawrence, Conrad, Mitchell, Paul Scott, Carson, Buck, Campbell, Tennyson, Browning, Melville, Wilder, Markandaya, Gandhi, Dante, Voltaire, Mark Twain,
Conan Doyle, Ibbotson, George Eliot, Dickens

Lord of the Rings, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mystery on PBS, Hook, The Princess Bride,
The Last Unicorn, The Monarch of the Glen, Are You Being Served, Waiting for God, Inspector Morse, Miss Marple, The Vicar of Dibley, Nova, As Time Goes By

Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Verdi, Purcell, Handel, Faure,
German and English Christmas carols, some Celtic music,
religious music, gospel, some R&B, folk, some heavy metal.

Anything different except sushi.
Mexican, Greek, Middle Eastern, Italian, Chinese, Indian

Will work on this from time to time

Physical and emotional love
Intellectual stimulation
kindness and courtesy
my religion and my God
joy and laughter
optimism and compassion
beauty of life in all forms
yes, I know that's more than six

love
death
religion
nature
beauty
sex
the cosmos
hope
the infinite
God
myth
mysticism
joy
the sufferings of life
the sadness of love
morality
suffering in all forms
sadness and pathos
the meaning of life
how people treat each other
all kinds of discoveries
creativity
art
compassion
mystery
all the emotions of the human heart

soaking in a hot bath, then diving in a deep, soft bed with a glass of iced tea and lots of pillows and a good book

or my friends will have dragged me out to see something

loneliness

You are tired of jumping from one shallow relationship to another and want a one woman--one man committed long-term love affair that explores all the magic of each other's heart.