I first saw Mount Taranaki (formerly Mt Egmont) over ten years ago. “Awesome!” I thought.
I love seeing this “ ever-fixed mark.” It helps me get my bearings and draws me in like a magnet, every time I go back to NZ to visit friends. Mt Rainier, near Seattle, has the same effect on me.
Once, at the end of a NZ holiday and feeling wistful, I had this view out the aircraft window. Just one look and I was on “Cloud Nine!” 
Human beings, vegetables, cosmic dust, all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. (Albert Einstein)
Text (except quote in italics) and photos by Meg Philp
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Story Twigs the Imagination! 
This is so beautiful to look at Meg…..very peaceful and magnificent!
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Storyteller friend Lesley lives so close to this mountain. I look up at it ever day when I’m staying there. It’s “an ever fixed mark.” Now where does that phrase come from? Must check that out. Thank you, faithful reader:-)
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116…I only know this because as I read the phrase here in your piece I heard Kate Winslet recite it in “Sense and Sensibility” – Emma Thompson’s screenplay (which I’ve seen a million times) :o)) Beautiful mountain shots by the way!
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Thanks. Love how great poetry has layers of meaning for every age and stage. Thanks for visiting.
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Ahh! Mt Taranaki! I too have a chance to feast my eyes on this mountain in different lights and cloud formations when we visit our son and his family in New Plymouth.
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Yes, Pam. The mountain makes me say “Ahh!” too. Thanks for stopping by. Meg
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Beautiful! Is it weird that I think it looks a little like Fuji?
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No it’s not, Becky. Movie with Tom Cruise “The Last Samurai” was filmed near here for that very reason. Thanks for visiting! M.
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Aha! That explains it 🙂
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So awe-inspiring and humbling..Mountains have a way of steadying and grounding don’t they? It’s like they have been here so long they are just completely confident and commanding of respect. I always feel so tiny in their presence. Just a magnificent capture! Thanks for posting 🙂
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Yes. Been thinking about how sailors/explorers must have been so glad to see the familiar landmarks as they got closer to home. Thanks for your comment, Kelly.
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Oh what a thought yes! I cannot imagine doing a cruise myself for days on end an no land in sight..I would need to be drugged 🙂 Isn’t it fascinating to ruminate on how many mariners/explorers have seen your mountain and been just reverent before it? Wonderful ancient history!
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It does make me think of Mt. Rainier here in Seattle. It is a landmark that I take my bearings from, and by moonlight, our great white ghost. Beautiful photo, Meg.
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One of my OMG moments. M
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OH, yes. It was Mt. Rainier by moonlight that prompted me to tell my mom that when I grew up I was going to come and live in Seattle.
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Thanks, Naomi. Look forward to seeing Rainier soon. (thinks: Didn’t Grace Kelly marry him :-))
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That might have been some other Rainier…SEE YOU SOON!
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