Yeah! First
post! Several months ago it was recommended to me that I should write a blog to
chronicle my post graduation adventures and as a place to share thoughts along
the way. After talking with my sister who has blogged for several years, I
decided to give it a shot. As my first post on this blog, I thought it best that
I provide some background to the blog and where I see it going if I should
manage to keep writing consistently. I was told that writing a blog is something
where one writes and posts without re-editing the piece half a dozen times. So,
as my audience, I ask you to bear with me and my ramblings, musings, and
spelling errors.
The Pensive
Turtle is a description of a mood that I get when I am pondering,
contemplating, and reflecting on life, the universe, and everything else. The
name was first given to me in orchestra practice when during a break I was
reading a very thought provoking book. A
violist walked up to me and said that I looked like a pensive turtle. I liked
the title and quickly adopted it for when it fits. This seemed like a good
title for the blog and one that might be easy to remember (also it wasn’t
taken).
Borne on
the Wind is likewise inspired from another source. In three years as an InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship bible study leader at the Colorado School of Mines, one Bible
study from three years ago stands out to me in particular for the thought it
formed in my head. In John 3 we find Jesus talking to Nicodemus. Jesus says,
and I paraphrase, “that everyone born of the Spirit is like the wind, which
blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it and see the effects of it,
but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going.“ I want my life to be
like the wind and to live fully now.
Three weeks
ago I graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a B.S. in Petroleum
Engineering. Come mid July, I start work with Schlumberger (SLB) as an
International Mobile (IM) Field Engineer working in Drilling and Measurements
(D&M) in West/Central Africa.
This Alaskan is going to the jungle where there are lots of bugs and the
humidity is very high. However, I am very excited to go and look forward to the
challenges and adventures that are sure to arise.
This blog is
primarily to keep you all informed on what is happening in my life; things that
won’t always be on facebook. Also, given the title of The Pensive Turtle, I
will be writing posts about my musings and pondering in spheres of engineering
(but not in little boxes or free body diagrams), life, faith, and society. I
may additionally post some of my poetry, maybe. I would ask you to be patient
with my poor grammar, random thoughts, and idiosyncrasies which will undoubtedly
come to the surface.
My game plan
for the time being is that I am currently in Alaska until June 21st!
This will be the longest I will have been in the state since my freshman summer
of college.
June 21st
– Fly back to Colorado for a friend’s wedding.
June 25th
– Fly to upstate NY visiting Grandparents and extended family.
July 9th
– Start training at Oilfield Services 1 (OFS 1) in France!
July – Start
work in Africa
To close out
my posts, I will try to leave some thoughts from my readings or
pondering:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. i did not with to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of mand here to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever, (Westminster Abby Catechism)."" - Thoreau
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