Aurora 2024

A Note From the Editor: The seasons change, people change, places change; everything endlessly changes and there is nothing to stop it. The inevitability of time terrifying deeply terrifies me. It brings with it fleeting thoughts and emotions that are in the past the second they happen. Like the ABBA song, the present constantly slips through my fingers, never to be picked up again. However, to change is to grow, to develop, to move on, to explore, or to become something new. To change is to be alive. It’s beautiful. The arts act as a snapshot capturing all the passing passion and important things in our lives. All art lives within the context of when they were made. A picture of the woods on a specific summer day, a poem about heartache, and a painting of something you love are all born from the moments someone felt it was important enough to make art about.

The honor of Aurora is to be the home to all these moments.

I hope that everyone reading this 2024 edition of Aurora appreciates and enjoys all the snapshots into the lives of our Woods community as we are now, and as we continue to grow and change in the future.

-Al Groves, Editor-in-Cheif

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