The Place For My Writers Notes

Original Posting 31 Jan 2010

Happened to see this in the passing waves of email, and thought some of you might enjoy it.

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." JK Rowling

http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination
--- video and transcript

http://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.html -- also has a link to the video