This profile is getting a serious rewrite, so if what you read doesn't interest you, please come back in a few days, and I should have it done by then. I've realized there are things that need to be here, things that don't, and things that just need to be said differently.

"Love is the great intangible. Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate--love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmishes, lovers enter the arena once again. Everyone admits that love's wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree what it is." -- Diane Ackerman, "A Natural History of Love"

The "experts" here tell us we shouldn't put friends or dating if what we really want is long term. I disagree. While many people here are ultimately looking for longterm relationships, the reality is that you have to be friends first if you expect it to really mean something and expect it to last. So for now I'm looking for someone to become friends with and to date. Maybe we'll fall in love, maybe we won't. I'd rather have a friend who isn't a lover, than a lover who isn't a friend.

1. Have the conviction to hold yourself to the golden rule; fight fair.
2. I need you to be honest, compassionate and willing to see both sides of an issue.
3. Know how to laugh occasionally, please; there has been enough anger in my past to last ten lifetimes. Laugh at yourself occasionally, and even laugh at me occasionally (I've been known to do a few(?) things that elicit a Homer Simpson DOH!). If you laugh at me, refer to rule #1.
4. You don't need be the life of the party, but it would be nice to find someone who remembers what it's like to be six, have that innocent perspective of things, and just play sometimes.

In the spring or summer I would absolutely love to play baseball/softball, but I can't/won't sit and watch any of it on TV, couldn't care less. People think I'm daft because I don't know (or care) who's playing in the World Series or Super Bowl, or who won the race on Sunday. I can think of a great many things I'd rather be doing than watching a game or race.

Things that touch me deep inside --
Warm, gentle summer rains (for dancing in, or...) and the sounds of distant storms
Babies’ smiles, the sounds of children laughing
Seeing “I love you” on a woman's face and in her eyes
An absolutely black night full of stars, and the unknowns and possibilities of the universe...yes, there is something, and someone out there.
Flying, particularly upside down in an open c0ckpit airplane (gotta love two wings and round engines!)

A couple things on my "bucket list" are to dive on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, and to fly through the Grand Canyon (not just over it), preferably in a plane I built(yes, I know how, it's just a matter of time and money).

Kids are the greatest things ever invented; they are truly the light of the world. There are far too many who have never known the touch of someone who desperately loves them and will do anything and everything to keep them safe. When you have the true absolute love and respect of a child there is NOTHING else that matters. Children are what we teach them to be, period. Teach them what you KNOW to be true, not what you think. They are not born knowing love, hate, prejudice, racism or kindness and trust. Love them, be kind to them and trust them, and that's what they will learn. I want desperately to win the lottery so I could give truckloads of money to Shriners and St. Judes.

I love cats too; lime-marinated and grilled with a tossed salad and a bottle of Moscato...yummmee! Just kidding, I actually do like cats, I have two.

If I look at your profile but don't send you a message it doesn't necesarily mean I'm not interested; it may be because this system doesn't like me sometimes and won't let me (explanation below). Feel free to message me if you like, I don't bite. Try Timetraveler658 on Yawho messenger.

I'm learning to live again(sounds like a good name for a song), and I have to learn to love again as well (wanna teach me?). I made a great many mistakes in the past, and I'm learning to not make those again too.

No HD tattoos, ok? Particularly as a "butt hat", "tramp stamp", or whatever you choose to call it. Tattoos in general I'm not crazy about, but I'm willing to discuss it.
Ladies - In mail settings, when you check the box that says, "Have messaged others for sex or intimate encounters" it doesn't block the people you think it does. You're trying to block the ones who are only looking to get lucky, great, but in reality it unfairly blocks those, like me, who have sent a message of any kind to someone who has "looking for intimate encounter (as opposed to talk/email, longterm, whatever) for their preference. And no, it isn't just a matter of semantics; there's a very decided difference there. If I send a message to someone who is only looking for talk/email that doesn't mean that's what I want; it means nothing more than I have sent them a message. The same applies to the "intimate encounter" scenario. It does NOT mean that's all I want, it just means I've sent them a message, nothing more, but your checking that box blocks me from messaging you. I'd bet there have been a great many 'could have been' matches were it not for that. Personally, I think it shows a great deal of smug arrogance on the part of the site owner for even having that option in place.



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Go to a museum, visit a winery, play miniature golf, bowling (I look awesome in red, white and blue shoes!), go-kart racing at Michael's Sports World. If you have a bicycle, I could pull mine out of mothballs and we could go for a ride. Meet somewhere for drinks, I'll buy, and if it doesn't click you got a free drink! Skydiving, but you have to go first because I've never done it and I'm afraid of heights! I'll have to give this area some more thought and I'll get back to you.