Donning the Law of the Day

Open at both ends — willing to give a thing and willing to receive one.

1. 01Ready and willing to give information
2. 02Open, not withholding what would help another
3. 03Able to make a thing understood
4. 04Talkative in the useful sense — forthcoming
5. 05Inclined to share rather than to guard
6. 06Transmitting freely, without static
7. 07Expressive, and also receptive
8. 08Frank, unguarded, easy to reach
9. 09Sociable, at ease in exchange
10. 10A woman through whom things pass

At home in the subject — familiar enough to converse, not merely to comment.

1. 01Familiar with a matter by study and use
2. 02Well-versed, acquainted, practiced
3. 03Able to discuss a thing with those who know it
4. 04Knowledgeable enough to hold the other side
5. 05Experienced, having lived in the subject
6. 06Fluent in the language of the room
7. 07Informed rather than opinionated
8. 08Skilled in the give and take of a matter
9. 09Versed in the details, not only the headline
10. 10Capable of true dialogue

Common speech — the highest thing said in the plainest words, so all may enter.

1. 01Belonging to ordinary, everyday conversation
2. 02Informal in the best sense — unpretentious
3. 03Spoken as people actually speak
4. 04Familiar, common, in general use
5. 05Plain enough to be understood by anyone
6. 06Conversational rather than ceremonial
7. 07Idiomatic — native to a people
8. 08Accessible without being diminished
9. 09Vernacular: the mother tongue of a place
10. 10Speaking as one, with the room

To give and receive in the same motion — the trade that leaves both women richer.

1. 01To give one thing and receive another
2. 02To trade, swap, or barter on purpose
3. 03To reciprocate — words, help, goods, understanding
4. 04To substitute the better for the lesser
5. 05To interchange, so both sides move
6. 06To pass something across and take something back
7. 07To convert one currency into another
8. 08To share so that neither side is emptied
9. 09To replace what no longer serves with what does
10. 10To hold a conversation, in the full sense — two directions

To bring light into a matter — herself first, then the whole situation.

1. 01To give light, understanding or insight
2. 02To free from ignorance or misinformation
3. 03To inform in a way that changes the seeing
4. 04To clarify what was murky
5. 05To instruct so that the other can move
6. 06To illuminate a situation, not only a fact
7. 07To open the eyes rather than fill the ears
8. 08To make a thing plain and therefore usable
9. 09To dispel a confusion on purpose
10. 10To let a woman in on what she did not know

To build. The mystery word: the only exchange that leaves both women larger than they were.

1. 01To build up, morally or spiritually
2. 02To instruct in a way that improves
3. 03To construct — the root is a building
4. 04To strengthen another by what you give her
5. 05To teach and to be taught in one motion
6. 06To uplift without flattering
7. 07To establish a thing in someone else
8. 08To enlighten and then leave structure behind
9. 09To improve a woman's mind and her character together
10. 10To increase the whole by increasing a part

Passage through the membrane — the quiet movement that always seeks the higher balance.

1. 01Movement of a substance through a permeable membrane
2. 02Gradual absorption of ideas or knowledge
3. 03The unforced passage from one side to the other
4. 04Transfer that happens by nearness, not by force
5. 05The seeking of balance between two bodies
6. 06Learning taken in by being present with it
7. 07Diffusion — the spread of a thing into a wider space
8. 08Assimilation of what is around her
9. 09Influence that passes without announcement
10. 10The mechanism of true exchange

One who speaks — and everything she carries speaks with her.

1. 01A skilled and eloquent public speaker
2. 02One who speaks on behalf of a matter
3. 03A woman whose speech moves a room
4. 04A spokeswoman for what she has built
5. 05One who persuades by clarity, not volume
6. 06A speaker trained in the art of it
7. 07The voice of a house, a business, a people
8. 08One whose presence is already an address
9. 09A rhetorician — speech as craft
10. 10The office of the woman who will not be silent

Agreement between the whole and the parts — speaking, building and being as one.

1. 01The state of being one, undivided
2. 02Unity between the whole and its parts
3. 03Harmony in which nothing contradicts
4. 04Union — two made one without either erased
5. 05Wholeness, integrity, singleness of purpose
6. 06Agreement so complete it needs no arguing
7. 07Communion — the fruit of true exchange
8. 08Sameness of mind between giver and receiver
9. 09The end of passage: nothing separated anymore
10. 10One language, spoken by everything she owns