Harry Potter, Imagination and Kiva Loans

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, recently gave a great commencement speech at Harvard. In her speech, the second of her two primary themes was the power of imagination. She said, "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared." Making loans to individuals through Kiva actually feeds that part of our imagination...it offers a unique perspective into lives that we will likely never know "in reality