Looming Mythic Mountain

This was the view of Mt Taranaki from my sitting room

a couple of evenings ago.

Coincidentally, if there is such a thing,

I have been reading Bright Star, a biography

of Beatrice Hill Tinsley written by

Christine Cole Catley. It is breathtakingly

good .

Christine Cole Catley who went to New Plymouth Girls High

as did Tinsley, later wrote the centennial history of that school.

In her biography of Beatrice Hill Tinsley she describes Mt Taranaki as that 'looming mythic mountain.'

Beatrice Hill Tinsley was well on her way

to becoming one of the great astronomers

of our age, until melanoma cut her down at the early age of 40.