Welcome - thanks for dropping in. This is a srange site to navigate but if you want to get in touch try my name (mike.tabrett) at gmail etc!
I suspect most people would consider I have a fairly 'alternative' lifestyle - 66 and living in a shared house in a housing coo-op; teaching T'ai Chi and loving it; not at all wanting to act my age! not 'settled' Really just a bit of an old hippy. I have a car but love being on my push bike. I'm an incurable bird watcher - there always seem to be birds around but I also like to make dedicated trips – finding that the process of observing and identifying offers a path in to a sense of deep connection with the world around me (there are always birds around!). I do occasionally chase after a rare bird but recently was just as excited by the return of a few House Sparrows to my feeding station.
T'ai Chi is of course a big part of my life. Related to the T'ai Chi is a sitting meditation practise and this has lead me to a secular interest in Buddhism and Taoism and have a sense of 'something' beyond myself. I tend to avoid terms like 'spiritual' if possible – either everything is or nothing.
Other things that mean a lot: I am rarely out of reach of a book or two of various types; music too is an accompaniment to my life – jazz and 'experimental' stuff but also a little folk. rock dance/reggae and so on; and I've had a real thing about Chopin nocturnes recently.
I am very politically minded and active in a left/green/anarchist type of way and I've realised I could not possibly have any kind of meaningful, intimate relationship with someone leaning to the right – I'm sure you are a genuinely nice person but there would just be too much friction.
I've been single roseveral years now and would love to find someone to share allof this - and to share in their life too! Somebody who has her own space and interests but with enough roomfor somone else. Someone to enjoy the sounds and the movement and the silences with and hold their hand as the sun sets over the marshes.
Someone who has seen enough of life to have some idea of who she really is.
Someone who likes the idea of a relationship being a journey and exploration rather than a fixed thing - for me there are echoes of that idea in Fromm's 'mature love' idea – perhaps like the Oak and the Cedar in Kahil Gibrans' 'The Prophet'. I don't wish to define who that might be or how they are too much - words can only take us so far and the basic ingredient has to be that mysterious attraction that seems to come from nowhere! After all - what's the point of exploring if I've already decided what I will find there!?
