Date men from United States / California / Berkeley, 56 year old

Date single man from California, United States. I've loved well and committedly. It's been rich and I've learned a lot about how to make myself compatible, about what's compatible for me and perhaps most importantly how to make my own goals compatible so I'm not demanding that my partner be impossibly opposite things.
Conversationally, I'm not everyone's cup of tea. I can do small talk but don't want to. I love thinking collaboratively, playfully, rigorously, and irreverently with a smart articulate woman.
To want the likes of me, I’m looking for someone who is like me in the following ways. You would be someone who:
Wants a partner who lives close so we don’t burn time and tons of greenhouse gas coming to and fro.
Is brazen, bold enough to speak her mind.
Is considerate, receptive and thoughtful, a phenomenal listener so we can trust each other.
Knows, monitors and curbs, your inner-weasel. We all have one. Even the sweetest gentlest women. If we mind our own inner-weasels we won’t end up chasing each other’s down.
Is still learning, not dogmatic but pragmatic.
Is verbal as by our age, rich inventive conversation will keep our love alive.
Is conversationally skilled, articulate, good at tracking conversation threads.
Is less interested in telling stories at each other than jamming, exploring and inventing ideas together.
Connects her intellect and life. Ivory tower and rarified isn’t the point. Thinking about what to do and how to live is the use of a good intellect.
Is introspective.
Has a feeling heart and a sharp mind.
Is philosophically and psychologically inquiring and playful, curious about how people work and how to work with them.
Has work you love.
Is cozy and sensual.
Is irreverent and not just about other people’s folly but her own.
Is self-effacing, since nothing lubricates partnership’s give and take quite like it.
Is politically interested, pragmatic and progressive.
Is beyond religion and even conventional "spirituality" since far more often than not it becomes a no-tag-backs hiding place for undue self-certainty.
Is far less interested in wine, cooking, sports or travel than in language, ideas and science.
Isn't quick to translate "I'm disappointed" into "You're mean," "I want" into "You owe," or employ unrestrainedly those ploys by which we try to pretend our guts always know what's right.
Is drawn to practical philosophy, interested in life's tough judgment calls and how to make them as well as possible.
I’ve got a lot to give. I own my own five bedroom home, have a fine income, my health, work I adore and solid avocation playing and singing RB and jazz. I’m good at cleaning and am no MCP. I have no paunch or wattle. I work out, eat clean, drink socially, stay fit, smoke a bowl occasionally, enjoy my own company, have the bright eyes of youth, have a quick sense of ironic humor and have demonstrated that when I fall in love I fall faithfully and well.
If you write me, I can point out a web site where a quick scan would give you a good sense of what interests me and whether we're compatible. I read like an open book there.

Meet someone special from California, United States. Hi, thanks for taking a moment to find out a little more about me...
Not really sure what to say... I'm interested in meeting initially for fun and see where it goes. I like old cars and buildings. I play music regularly (guitarist). I love animals. I ski and scuba dive. I'm also a pilot, but not currently active. I"m looking for some one who has similar interests, talents and is interested in a little male companionship. I'm comfortable in both city and country.

Date a man from California, United States. We don't usually pick our friends out of catalogs or prescreen them using resumes. I prefer a conversation. So, I'm hoping to give you enough here that we could actually talk about something. The irony of using the internet to converse by letter, as if we lived in 1800, isn't lost on me, but there you go.
Here are some things that we can talk about:
I'll never retire to Palm Springs, to wear white shoes and play golf. I like to spend my time *doing* something: creating art, music, software, guitars (I've built one from scratch); making the world a better place; I want to engage the world, not pass through it. Passion is important.
I'm a pilot---used to own my own plane---and have flown much of the country, so there are stories. I seem to be in London a couple times a year (speaking engagements), and I've been taking advantage of someone else paying my travel expenses to go exploring for a week or two after. I'd welcome some suggestions. I'm thinking Edinburgh, but my (German) neighbor is lobbying for Berlin. I'm holding off on Italy until I have someone to go with.
We could talk about music (or dance about architecture :). I play piano (Terry-Riley-style Minimalism---ask and I'll send you a URL). I just had a great time performing in public after a much-too-long hiatus, and plan to do more of that. If you're an artist's rep, let's talk even if there's no romance in the offing. My listening tastes are eclectic: Bach to Nine Inch Nails. Classical, electronic, techno, jazz, rock, blues/country/bluegrass, rap/hip-hop, gagaku, qawwali. You name it. I draw the line at ABBA and Chinese opera (but maybe I just don't know enough about the latter to hear it clearly). Educate me!
I read voraciously, so we can talk about books. I just finished Anthony Trollop's "The Bertrams:" engaging but depressing (20-somethings make stupid mistakes that they pay for for the rest of their lives); he's written better. I've been reading Gibson's three newest SF novels---I love his idea of virtual locative art. Hold up your phone and what you see on the screen is what you'd see if the phone wasn't there, but with a piece of art, visible only in the virtual world, superimposed). Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" is good to talk about, since it's both brilliant and historically accurate. I studied History (and Computer Science) at Cal, so fractured history drives me nuts. I tried to watch "The Tudors" on TV, but I just couldn't take the made-up bits (or the haircuts). The real story is much better than the one they invented. I've also just finished "Bel Canto", and am still trying to sort *that* out. The book isn't what many people say (an exploration of the Stockholm syndrome), because the bad guys aren't particularly bad, and the last chapter is as depressing as Trollope's last chapter; people getting married, but for the wrong reasons.
We could talk about art (more dancing about architecture), or we could just meet at the DeYoung or MOMA and look at some. Goldsworthy's Spire over in the Presidio is always amusing. It's evolving over time, so I visit it regularly. ("Rivers and Tides" is a great movie, by the way, particularly Fred Frith's soundtrack.) I worked as an illustrator and jewelry maker in a past life, and still draw occasionally.
I write as well as read (9 books, a gazillian magazine articles, all very technical nonfiction). We can talk about writing or about tech, but I don't want to put you to sleep, so I'm perfectly happy abandoning tech talk altogether. I volunteer as an 8th-grade writer coach, which is probably more interesting.
If you're not so much in to talking, we could go for a bike ride, play tennis (I play at USTA 4), go walking.
Finally, we could talk about a relationships. I'm looking for an partnership, not a clone. I want a real relationship that will last as long as we will---not just a date. I'd enjoy having kids around (mine are all launched), but that's not required.