xeniv233 from Bellingham, USA

Friendly, secure, curious about nearly everything, career pilot specializing in fighting fire. Make me laugh and you are most of the way there. I am semi-retired, I work during the fire season and play/travel and hang out with my daughter the rest of the year. I've done the really hard things in my career and now I"m just cruising enjoying myself. What I do is like the best e-ticket ride at Disney. I'm good with my hands and I like fixing things, usually things that I broke...don't mind making new and interesting mistakes instead of the old same ones... Mark Twain said it best I think "Travel is the enemy of ignorance." I tend to travel when I can and put myself in strange new environments just for the learning of it. I like thinking about the universe when it was about the size of a grapefruit and getting bigger fast. I like looking at stars and marveling at how stardust became us. I let people be who they will be. I often relate better to dogs and cats than some sorts people. Somewhat conservative in personal habit ( I have an idea of what works for me) but am very liberal in outlook. I understand that change is inevitable but progress isn't. Love full contact Scrabble. Got Hacky? Oh yeah, like cooking together and a nice red as a reward. Looking for brains, a sense of humor bordering on the absurd, an absence of dramatic impulses, good communication skills, not afraid of intimacy and who is secure enough to understand the very deep value of companionable silence and all that is implied about the people who share it.I have a daughter who is the center of my particular universe and I'm putting her through school, love pets especially dogs and cats, very active, hiking, running, I workout 5 times a week as a matter of health, not obsession; kayaking, sailing (I live aboard part of the year), traveling, fly fishing for dumb trout, telefaceplanting in the backcountry.... I am a very good listener and am not judgmental. I seek to understand; but if I don't understand I seek to accept. ??I'm not religious: However I try to follow these six words derived from a pre-cursor to Christianity: Think right, Say right, Do right. Really, isn't that the core of all of it? ??I'd like to develop a friendship with a like minded woman who shares at least some interests and who will bring other experiences/opinions/interests to the table. Learning new things is the best fun of all. You should like learning as well.

Looking for brains, a sense of humor bordering on the absurd, an absence of dramatic impulses, good communication skills, not afraid of intimacy and who is secure enough to understand the very deep value of companionable silence and all that is implied about the people who share it.I have a daughter who is the center of my particular universe and I'm putting her through school... I am a very good listener and am not judgmental. I seek to understand; but if I don't understand I seek to accept. ??I'm not religious: However I try to follow these six words derived from a pre-cursor to Christianity: Think right, Say right, Do right. Really, isn't that the core of all of it? ??I'd like to develop a friendship with a like minded woman who shares at least some interests and who will bring other experiences/opinions/interests to the table. Learning new things is the best fun of all. You should like learning as well.