Candle-lit rooms

What is it that captures the eye, the mind, the heart, and the soul of us when we are in a candle-lit room?

Maybe the very invention of the light bulb robbed us of subtle, mundane moments of seeing the depths and shapes of people and things around us. 

Our eyes have gotten so used to well-lit rooms we've started to look at souls in full light, where everything is so flatly, factly presented. All ebbs and flows flattened to mere profiles with no texture.

So, let me see you in candlelight, to see you whole in your true depth and shadow.


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