Cincyjim's profile

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Single. Interested in meeting women for dating and meeting women for a serious relationship and meeting people for friendship

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I live in the greater Cincinnati area and have been divorced for quite some time now.  Every time I think I think I've about got life figured out I get humbled and find there is always a whole lot more yet to learn.  Maybe that's why I find so many things interesting, though.  As I get to know someone I have a somewhat mischievous sense of humor, but never mean spirited.  I made my living through most of my career in the business world, but am now free to do as I will, and have used my time to develop my talents as an artist.  I paint in oils, and have found a great deal of satisfaction in my work.  I have always been an outdoorsman, and that is reflected in many of my works, whether landscapes or wildlife.  I like to do things in a unique way that reflects my own individual style and approach.  I have developed techniques all my own to capture special effects in light and shadow, and to give added depth in almost a three dimensional aspect that cannot be fully appreciated in photos of my works, but are best appreciated when seen in person.  I sometimes enjoy just sitting in my back yard at night by my fish pond, watching the fountain, with sometimes a fire in my chimnera, and watching the many wild creatures that often drop by.   I also love a number of types of music, and my tastes are pretty eclectic.  I'm a pretty fair dancer, although I haven't been as active recently as I used to be.  I think that it is more important that people respect one another for who the other one is than that they think exactly alike and like all of the same things.  I want no one to try to impress me, but rather they feel comfortable just being themself.  After all, that is who we all end up being sooner or later anyway.   I am a sensitive, caring person, and respect that trait in others.  I believe character is a person's most attractive and enduring feature, and one that cannot be faked where it is not present, but always shines through where it is.  I believe that the ability to forgive is also a very important ability for a person to have a healthy and balanced life, and has to begin with ourselves.  I have found that people who are too hard on themselves have a hard time making allowances for others as well, which only makes things harder for themselves.  It doesn't mean they are bad people.  Most of all, I think it's good not to take life too serious all of the time, but to learn to let go of things, and when possible, find the reasons to smile.  I've added some pictures of a few of my paintings to my photos.  I hope that you like them.   Also, my videos are very revealing into my tastes and personality.

 

Activities

I'm an artist. anything to do with the outdoors, hiking, walking, bicycling, canoeing, camping, etc.

Favorite Music

Celtic, New Age. Contemporary Christian, Rock, Pop, Young Country, Classical, More

Favorite Movies

Gladiator, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Moby Dick, Dr. Zhivago, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Papillon, Forrest Gump, Legends of the Fall, The Longest Day, Last of The Mohicans, Dances With Wolves, The Deer Hunter, Trading Places, Braveheart, Girl Interrupted, The Last Detail, Soldier In The Rain, Terms of Endearment, The Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Favorite Books

Moby Dick, Two Years Before The Mast, Last of the Mohicans,

Favorite Quotes

Too many to list, many of Mark Twain's quotes would top the list, as well as from Abraham Lincoln and perhaps a couple from Winston Churchill and W.C. Fields

Favorite People

My Daughter, My Best Friend Mel and my old Scoutmaster, Danny Mulcahey, may they rest in peace, My friend Kathy Fitgerald, bedridden and no longer able to communicate due to her devastating Huntington's Chorea, for which there is no cure, and to which she has already lost her brother, and her courageous parents, who visit her every day in her near vegetative state, Abraham Lincoln, Red Skelton, Mohandas Gandhi, Dale Carnegie, Carry Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Alexander Solzhenitzen, Gary Smalley, Dr. James Dobson, Jackie Gleason, Carol Burnett, Steve McQueen, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, Sally Fields

Favorite Places

Northern Ontario, Yucatan peninsula, Florida Keys, St. Augustine , Fla.Smokey Mountains, Red River Gorge, Ky. Michigan, parts of Ohio and Indiana, Black Hills of S.D. and badlands

Favorite Animals

Cats, dogs, especially black labs, collies, golden retrievers, huskies(as pets). wolves, eagles, racoons, tigers(to look at or to paint)

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