This is addressed to one of you lovely ladies out there – I just don’t know your name yet. Like me, you are looking for THE person to spend the second half of your life with. You have a great balance of integrity, intelligence, a zest for life, a genuine interest in the world, a love of travel, a strong, self-confident personality with a dash of down-to-earth sophistication and style, a profession of your own, and youthfulness. And like me you believe youthfulness is a function of the mind, not the body.
You have been instrumental in guiding the development of your children, and now you support them from afar as they pursue their own paths, just one of the many things we have in common.
You have a sense of adventure and want the world to be a better place for you having lived in it. When you meet me it will take a bit of time to understand me, as I am an enigma and defy most conventional classifications. I have an extreme sense of purpose in life, but only share that purpose with a treasured few. You too have a sense of purpose, but you may not have fully discovered it yet.
Also like me, you have come to realize that however well you try to define the person you are looking for, they will be quite different in some ways from what you expected, but the chemistry will be truly amazing. And this lack of ability to foresee the nature and physical looks of your future friend and partner is likely to encourage you to contact people you find interesting but don’t initially feel any connection with or attraction to. You will be truly surprised at what emerges.
You will also subscribe to the motto: A good friend will come bail you out of goal … but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying “Damn … we screwed up”. Many adventures await us (albeit of the type we'd not go to goal for).
If you feel that this could have been written for you, you know how to contact me. If not me, be positive in your search for YOUR true friend for the second half.
“Four things come not back: the spoken word; the sped arrow; time past; the neglected opportunity.”

Initially I'd like to meet in a mutually comfortable environment; somewhere fairly quiet where we can talk and get to know one another and see if there is any real mutual interest and attraction. Our first date could be for coffee or drinks, or could progress to dinner.
Whatever we learn through this site, and through exchanging messages or talking, ultimately it is impossible to know if there is any real connection until we meet.