Looking for a Friendship and maybe more later.

[Lost in Albany]

I am a 60-year-old in good shape and generally good spirits. I have always had trouble meeting new people, dyslexic as a child I grew up very shy. I have had significant others in my life but relying on fate to connect me is not working.
I have relied on my nephew David and his family to be my emotional connections.
Ben his youngest is in first grade now and getting over his "selective mutism". I have been around since he was born. We built an igloo last week. I did what I set out to do help him, help him to communicate better, make sure he felt loved and listened too. Soon he will be a teenager and need me around less, which was always the goal.
While my nephew and I have a great friendship, but I may have been around more than I should and am afraid to, where out my welcome with his wife.
I need to build personal relationships, in addition to my nephew and his friends.
I like movies, chess with a friend, walking, nature but have few other active hobbies.
I have done some traveling (not enough), some painting, stained glass and wood working

 

[Minus]

Welcome to the forums
Look around and make yourself at home.

 

[TropicalStarfish]

Welcome.

This place isn't as active as it once was. If you are looking for friendship and possibly more, I think your chances are astronomically higher by playing the online dating game, or joining clubs and groups if you live in an area that is at least somewhat populated enough to support such things: book clubs, dining clubs, hiking clubs, whatever and what-have you: creative writing courses at local colleges...

Other than that, lonely folk come this way, from time to time, some come, some go, some stay for a bit, others stay for a while.

Best of luck to you.