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What does it mean?
Shadows dance in the small gaps between day and night, suggesting beauty in liminal spaces.
In plain terms
Shadows play in the small light between day and night.
What can you take from it?
Find beauty in transitions and small spaces.

Where it applies

  • twilight
  • reflection

Putting it to work

  • notice transitions
  • appreciate small moments

Questions to consider

  • Where do you find beauty in transitions?

Another view

Romanticizing shadows may ignore real darkness.

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