"We live in...

"a rapidly changing world--a world that refuses to stand still long enough for us to really know or understand its essence.

We live in a world of shapes and colors we vaguely glimpse from our car windows as we drive to work each morning--a world we see at times in harsh images projected on our television screens and embedded in our newspaper headlines.

We live in a multi-dimensional world, segmenting our lives into phases and cycles--a world bound by time, forming the walls of history within which each of our generations lives.

It is also a world that transcends time through imagination and inspiration, and one that is perpetuated by our hopes, our fears and our dreams.

We live in a world that shapes us daily--a world we in turn help to shape through our actions, thoughts and words--a world shaped by complex new technologies, institutions and values, which often surprise and startle us into new realities foreign to our experience.

We live in a world where each generation seeks to know more about life than the last.

We live in a world that moves in and out of focus as quickly as we blink an eye--a world where meaning and understanding must be re-created constantly because of the impermanence of human experiences--a world striving for more peace and goodness, but still torn by great sadness and human misery.

We live in a world that exists today only because we continue to believe in a better tomorrow--a world that pushes and pulls us toward the future, even when our own inertia seeks to hold us back."

Don Iannone
From: The History of the Vito Anthony and Rhea Milbaugh Iannone Family
June 1994