The Light of Dawn and Dusk

It's telling that the best times to manipulate life's light is during brief cyclical periods where hues undergo their metamorphosis between plateaus of stability. Uncertainty over what the energy is and how it ought to project. Dawn and dusk. You can see the full range of life during these small pockets each day and they're very emotional to handle and play with. Everything the light touches at these times is transformed so that dog turds on tow paths turn golden and prove they can be polished.