Happy New Year from the Missoula Writing Collaborative

Peace on earth

In 2008 the Missoula Writing Collaborative brought the joy of creative writing to over 4000 children and young adults. We are grateful to all our supporters, especially the National Endowment for the Arts, the Montana Arts Council, the Charles Engelhard Foundation, and, most recently, the Gallagher Foundation and the Missoula Community Foundation.

Thank you!

Happy
New Year from the Missoula
Writing Collaborative

January 1, 2009

The hour is striking so close above me,

so clear and sharp,

that all my senses ring with it.

I feel it now: there's a power in me

to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me, to meet and be met.

from Rilke's Book of Hours

Missoula Writing Collaborative

P.O. Box 9237

Missoula, MT 59807