71 [M4A] #Northern Virginia / DC metro / DMV — scientist, craftsman, pianist, cyclist, and unapologetic believer in human connection
I’m a 71-year-old retired attorney and scientist living just outside Washington, DC, looking for someone who values curiosity, warmth, intelligence, emotional honesty, affection, and the rare pleasure of truly seeing another person.
I make violins and other beautiful, useful things with my hands. I improvise at the piano. I’ve ridden fine bicycles seriously for over fifty years and still love the feeling of moving through the outdoors under my own power. I enjoy cooking for people I care about, especially long dinners that become longer conversations.
I’m drawn to thoughtful people — readers, musicians, artists, scientists, writers, wanderers, emotionally perceptive souls, people capable of both seriousness and mischief.
Professionally, I lived a rigorous analytical life punctuated by numerous adventures and oddly humorous challenges. Personally, I care much more about attentiveness, kindness, wit, tenderness, emotional presence, and the strange magic of human chemistry than I do about physical characteristics, profession, and particular orientation.
I’m not interested in games, dominance, performative masculinity, or collecting experiences. I genuinely enjoy people. I enjoy discovering how someone thinks, what moves them, what they notice, what they long for, what makes them laugh unexpectedly.
And truthfully: I love falling in love. Not theatrics. Not possession. The quieter thing. The gradual unveiling of trust, fascination, emotional intimacy, shared language, private humour, fingertips on an arm across the dinner table, the feeling that two people have somehow recognized one another across time.
This connection might become friendship, companionship, romance, emotional intimacy, mentoring, affection, or something beautifully difficult to categorize. It does not need to begin sexually, or even get there at all.
I’m equally open to virtual connection or meeting someone within a few hours of Old Town Alexandria, VA.
Things I love:
improvised piano, old books, craftsmanship, elegant prose, science, museums, tea, cooking, beautiful bicycles, dark humour, late-night conversations, and people with inner lives.
If any of this resonates with you, I’d genuinely enjoy hearing from you.