i like poetry, people, and potatoes.

i relate to having an infj profile on the meyers briggs.

i think life is an amazing mystery and we are all brave just for showing up to it each day.

I am dorky, gentle, and observant

i am a homeowner of a small cheerful old house.

i like my paid job a lot (social service management) and also have some lifelong avocations (writing, making little art things, sitting around looking at nature and being curious about people).

my 2 riotgrrl daughters are now cool independent riotadults, and i enjoy their company immensely. i am trying not to work out my empty nest issues on my cat, but i am a little codependent with her.

i have spent long happy periods of my life being in a monogamous partnership. and other long happy periods of my life being polyamorous and/or married to a creative solitude.

at this time of life i'm interested in falling in love and creating a partnership with a "one and only". although i am more attracted to people's kind energy than their gender, i feel i am better suited to a long term partnership with a man.

enjoying the day to day things.

noticing nature. realizing the utter strength and utter fragility of life.

seeing the loveliness of gender and orientation without a preconceived notion.

writing. and www.flickr.com/photos/14780291@N08/ (not necessarily really good at, but really enjoy)

dorky quiet cheerfullness.

authors: lynda barry, anne tyler, rumi, mary oliver, rilke, walt whitman. laura ingalls wilder was my childhood celebrity crush.

movies: a room with a view, ma vie en rose, antonia's line, emma, carwash, breakfast on pluto, together, biloxi blues, to kill a mockingbird, muriel's wedding, pride and prejudice

music: van morrison, marvin gaye, kd lang. t-rex. leonard cohen. the music made by young people i know.

daughters. cat. library. trees. humor. notebook.

the world, the environment, fair wages, clean water for people. i think about how to live in action and contemplation. i wonder how to give room for grief, compassion and working for justice in balance with enjoying all that's beautiful in the world.

various things. maybe reading a book. or visiting with one of my daughters. or making a collage. or watching a film. or just relaxing in the quiet.

after a twenty two year marriage ending in friendship, i spent a few years just drifting without a strong idea of what i wanted except just experiencing solitude, self and new people in an open-ended kind of capacity.

lately it's come into focus that i really desire partnership again. i miss that special clubhouse of two feeling. and i think i could be really good at it. someone to share talk, romance, walks, giving and receiving gentle feedback, meals, sharing feelings, supporting one another's best hopes and being there to sort out life's challenges.

so, i have an agenda, and want to be up front about it.

something resonated here.
you pledge allegiance to the world.
you are a gentle person who needs occasional quiet.
you like written words.
you are nature's bride or groom.
you are kind of romantic and kind of practical at the same time.