The Law of Parameter

Held within chosen bounds — composed, kept, and free to widen the circumference.

1. 01Held within limits; kept inside a boundary
2. 02Composed — self-possessed, not spilling over
3. 03Enclosed by something that gives it shape
4. 04Comprised: holding all its parts within itself
5. 05Restrained on purpose rather than by force
6. 06Bounded — having an edge that can be measured
7. 07Kept safe by what surrounds it
8. 08Concentrated, because nothing is leaking out
9. 09Included within a set, a charter or a scope
10. 10Under control without being under pressure
11. 11Collected in one place instead of scattered
12. 12Able to grow its circumference without losing its shape

To draw out, as water from a well — she does not invent it, she draws it up.

1. 01To draw out; to bring forth what is already there
2. 02From elicere — to lure out, to entice into the open
3. 03To evoke a response by asking rightly
4. 04To extract information, truth or agreement
5. 05To call up out of a depth
6. 06To obtain by gentle means rather than force
7. 07To bring latent worth to the surface
8. 08To provoke, in the sense of prompting a thing to appear
9. 09To draw an answer out of someone who had it all along
10. 10To educe — to lead out what is contained

ONE source — a stream, a spring, the spirit of truth; it flows and it feeds.

1. 01The point at which something begins to exist
2. 02A source — a spring or head from which a stream runs
3. 03The cause from which a thing proceeds
4. 04Provenance: where it came from and whose it is
5. 05The root of a word, a family or a work
6. 06The starting point from which all measurement is taken
7. 07Derivation — the line back to the first thing
8. 08A wellhead: what is drawn from without being emptied
9. 09The single reference every branch is answerable to
10. 10The spirit of truth, from which supply flows and feeds

Made into a thing — established, chartered, given standing and a body.

1. 01Established formally; set up as an entity
2. 02Composed of — made up of its own named parts
3. 03Appointed to an office by lawful act
4. 04Framed — given a constitution, a charter, a form
5. 05Ordained; brought into legal existence
6. 06Comprised into one body from many members
7. 07Founded, so that it stands whether or not she is present
8. 08Organised — parts arranged into a working whole
9. 09Of a settled make-up: how a thing is naturally put together
10. 10Recognised as a person in law, able to hold and to give
11. 11Instituted so that it continues by its own rule
12. 12Built to bear weight rather than to look built

To put power into other hands — what is constituted gives back.

1. 01To give power or authority to another
2. 02To authorise — to license an act formally
3. 03To enable; to supply the means to do the thing
4. 04To commission someone to act on your behalf
5. 05To invest with legal right or standing
6. 06To strengthen — to make able where there was inability
7. 07To delegate real decision, not only real work
8. 08To equip with tools, budget and permission at once
9. 09To warrant — to stand behind another's action
10. 10To give back power to the place power came from

The organisation is issue — an heir to the kingdom by right and by duty.

1. 01That which is brought forth; progeny, issue
2. 02A child — one who inherits by birth, not by application
3. 03The product or result of something that grew
4. 04Descendants — the line that carries the name forward
5. 05An heir: entitled by right and bound by duty
6. 06A branch that came out of the parent stock
7. 07Fruit, in the plain sense: what a living thing yields
8. 08A creation that now has its own life
9. 09Progeny of a work — a subsidiary, a second location, a spin-off
10. 10A thing owed care because it came out of you

She carries what flows without resisting it — and leading is simply conducting it well.

1. 01Able to carry a current through itself with little loss
2. 02Transmitting — passing power along rather than holding it
3. 03Conducting: leading, guiding, directing a body of people
4. 04Serving as a channel between a source and a use
5. 05Offering little resistance to what must pass through
6. 06Of a nature that connects two places electrically or humanly
7. 07Conveying heat, light, water, money or authority onward
8. 08Given to guiding, as a conductor guides an orchestra into one sound
9. 09Open — not insulated against the source
10. 10Conducive: tending to bring about the thing it carries
11. 11Steady enough to be trusted with a current
12. 12Leading by carrying, not by blocking

To give life — to put current into the thing she has built and into whoever stands in it.

1. 01To give energy to; to supply with power
2. 02To make active; to set a thing in motion
3. 03To invigorate — to put strength back into a body
4. 04To switch on — to bring a circuit to life
5. 05To animate; to give the appearance and fact of life
6. 06To stimulate into effort without driving
7. 07To rouse a group from stillness into work
8. 08To vitalise — to add life rather than pressure
9. 09To charge, as a battery is charged for later use
10. 10To quicken; to make lively what was inert

Plural — many streams coming out of one mountain, all fed by the same source.

1. 01Sources multiplied — several springs from one watershed
2. 02The several beginnings a large work is traced back to
3. 03Headwaters: the many streams that leave one mountain
4. 04Roots — the plural lines a family or a house grows from
5. 05Multiple income streams drawn from one truth
6. 06Foundations laid in more than one place
7. 07Provenances — the honest histories of what she holds
8. 08Points of derivation for every branch and offspring
9. 09The wells she has dug that others now drink from
10. 10Increase measured in sources rather than in sales