How do we know when we are building a new world? Can we understand when we are in the middle of the process?
We take life one day at a time. Often we have a tendency to think few changes are a part of our lives. We build on the process of routine and see little change. Nonetheless, if we think how our lives have changed, often drastically, we realize many facets of life do change, even within routines, and stubbornness.
Change is a process we take for granted.
Change is not inherently good or bad. It just exists. Where would we be in many lives without the cell phone, without the internet, without television. The time covered spans many generations.
Change often is external for us, and, our reaction to apparent change, can be integrated into daily lives.
We can recount social and scientific changes in which we react and adapt.
Some segments of society repel change and prefer the status quo. There can be conflict over change. These changes include religion, society stratification, family orientation, or, adapting new neighbors in our living arrangements, near and far.
We are better off if we interact with family, think positive thoughts, and understand times to make change. Making change is neither always good nor always bad. Understanding change is always the first step. Adapting, if needed, is step two. It is true for all of us and forcing change is as bad and resisting it.
• There are important items within these pages which can be found here this week! The 2022 Class of the Fox Valley Art Hall of Fame (FVAHF) was announced Friday of last week at the Batavia Public Library. We will have photos and more information on the 2022 Class of the FVAH next week. Here is the list of the 2022 inductees: Lucille and Sten Halfvarson, music; Olive Beaupre Miller, writer; Charles Pierce Burton, writer, all deceased, and had resided in Aurora; and Joseph Morton (Mort) Luby, painter, from Carpentersville.
The 2020 banquet was postponed because of The COVID-19 pandemic. Both the 2020 and the 2022 classes will be inducted March 31, 2023 at Villa Olivia in Bartlett. The 2020 class inductees include Patrick F Beckman, music; Kevin Braheny Fortune, music, from Elgin; Vincent S. Chiaramonte, portraitist, Jeffrey Hunt, music, from St. Charles; and, Joel C. Sheesley, painter, from Wheaton.
The FVAHF was the dream of Lucille Halfvarson and other arts leaders that took form in Aurora during the Millennium in 2000.
The founders include: Joyce Dlugopolski, Jay Harriman, Mary Clark Ormond, Susan S. Starrett, and deceased members Lucille & Sten Halfvarson, G. Edward Nelson, Roger Parolini, and Charlotte and George Peichl.
• Week four of the Kane County Regional Office (ROE) Student Photography contest, a nine-week competition for high school students, reveals 10 winners. Those winners and their high schools: Titus Lands, Jacobs High School; Diego Sida, West Aurora; Emaad Dar, Jr., Bartlett; Ionicca Rivera, West Aurora; Lorelai McDermott, South Elgin; Matthew Kimani, East Aurora; Nick Rhein, Bartlett; Peter Stahl, Marmion Academy; Raymond Burrage, Hampshire; Soraya Walikonis, Central in northwest Kane County.
• Kinky Boots production at the Paramount Theatre in 2021 was most honored in the Equity Jeff Awards.