hi tumblr.

i’m rachel.
i live in sydney.
i’m a high school english and drama teacher. i love my job. i really dislike capital letters.

i love: the truth and jesus and words and pictures and being outside and reading aloud and live music and city lights.

sehnsucht is the greatest word i have learned (other than grace).

i post things that i think are beautiful, but i love clive staples lewis for teaching me this about beautiful things:

“the books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. these things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. for they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”

say hello. it’s nice to know you’re reading.