tuning in

its only a 5 minute taxi trip from the station to home ..

Too short for a meaningful conversation surely ...  and not many international drivers in this country town.. less likely to touch on the world of refugees and aspirational international students who are up for the deep exchange of world views. Just sleepy aussies.
 
How's the weather been, i ask the driver. I'm feeling a bit fried from a day of meetings,  the lack of sleep in motels, and the somewhat numbing effect of travelling home - taxi, plane, train, taxi etc

anyway, final taxi  ...  how's the weather been here?

perfect mate, he says, blue skies, not too hot

cool. first day of summer, isn't it, i say

um, don't know - i go by the solstice, he says

we talk about that - he knows the dates of solstice and equinox, and that 91 days on either side is a phase of some kind.  Somehow its not an approximation i've ever used, but 364/4 seems pretty good way to quarter the year. I do vaguely know there is a bablyonian origin to base 60 aspect of the 360 degrees / solar cycle etc, and i'm sure he would know that - his approach  has that sort of feel somehow. 
 
you from here? i ask - already knowing the answer will be no, or not fully  - since that sort of new age interest  - which shows in his face somehow, in addition to the solstice calculations  -  isn't something you expect in a country taxi driver. And indeed he is just back from 20 years in Melb. 

the fare is $10.10

i like that number i say  ... (and indeed i do often see it as an encouraging reminder of something)

he agrees  - yeah nice pattern.

you might not be into this, i say, but reminds me of John 10:10 in the bible - 'I have come to give them life, and life abundantly'

cool. yeah. 
all numbers have a hidden symmetry behind them, he says - and either he's deferring the surprise of hearing that verse, or its releasing him to go deeper into his own view, so he's running with the number symmetry thing again - telling me about a higher dimensional matrix that orders the frequencies of numbers

good thing i work in maths - we chat in the drive way

i agree to look at a mystical maths web site if he will look at John 10:10 - check he has a bible - he's happy to agree and seems interested enough that i think he'll do it.

the console $10.10  is looking like 101.0 during this conversation - as though we're tuning in to a frequency- not so much his number patterns though, though there is a Logos behind this and all such patterns - just with a different Name than he suspects.  

few other conversations this week had similar nice lead ins. all different angles.

 something cool is happening here:)

(eg another taxi driver turned out to be  Syrian. I ask about all that. About Damascus, which he is very proud of. Drop in Paul's conversion - and he's proud of that too - he walks that site often. Turns out to be son of a baptist leader who was expelled from Syria being too demonstrative - and he's homesick - would like to go back.  Clearly needs one of the two copies of Courageous Leadership that i happen to have with me.

 all these conversations end with a positive buzz to them. nice way to start or end the day.  And that's without the cool guidance  in some parts of  work. All of these are too short to be major in themselves - maybe less profound than the previous posts on this sort of thing - but as as scattering seeds, there is something potentially worthwhile in them; especially if the connections gets followed. Mustard seeds and all that.