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A daytime scene, with a concrete wall in front of a residential property. On the wall is stencilled in rainbow colours a wreath, with cursive text within reading 'Courage dear Heart' and an attribution to C.S. Lewis in the bottom right.

Have Courage, dear heart.

This mural popped up on a garden wall opposite my regular bus stop in around Feb 2020. I don’t know if it was intended to be a message for the bush fires or the pandemic but I saw it every day and it always made me feel a little less alone.

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