User:Bennistor

Longtime reader, new user. I love how Wikipedia perfectly mirrors the train of thought of a great conversation, where exploring a single topics can lead one from station to station, changing tracks, and in time one may have traveled so deeply along so many different tracks, how the journey began has been long forgotten. "How did I get here?" David Byrne might ask. On Wikipedia, an unfamiliar Greek phrase might lead to an article about Sparta, which might lead to an article about Laconic phrase, which might lead to Calvin Coolidge's famously terse pronouncements, which might lead to a discussion about the 23rd president's tendency toward Laissez-faire economic policy, which might lead to an exploration of the French phrase's origin as "Wu wei" in the Tao Te Ching. How do you end up going from an unfamiliar Greek phrase to the Tao De Ching? There may be many ways, but each one is a delight.

Origins
I was born in Georgia.

Education
I was educated and became self-aware in North Carolina.

Career
I live in Washington, D.C. and work at a nonprofit.

Death
It's coming, but hasn't yet.