stick - members - vascular

Stick (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stick) definition of the word stick on dictionary.com
–noun
1.a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.
2.a relatively long and slender piece of wood.
3.a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc.
4.a rod or wand.
5.a baton.
6.Chiefly British. a walking stick or cane.
7.a club or cudgel.
8.something that serves to goad or coerce: The threat of unemployment was the stick that kept the workers toiling overtime.
9.a long, slender piece or part of anything: a stick of candy; sticks of celery.
10.any of four equal parts in a pound of butter or margarine.
11.Sports. an implement used to drive or propel a ball or puck, as a crosse or a hockey stick.
12.Aeronautics. a lever, usually with a handle, by which the longitudinal and lateral motions of an airplane are controlled.
13.Nautical. a mast or spar.
14.Printing.
15.the sticks, Informal. any region distant from cities or towns, as rural districts; the country: Having lived in a large city all his life, he found it hard to adjust to the sticks.
16.Military.
a.a group of bombs so arranged as to be released in a row across a target.
b.the bomb load.
17.Informal.
18.Slang. a marijuana cigarette.
19.Informal. an unenthusiastic or uninteresting person.
20.Informal. a portion of liquor, as brandy, added to a nonalcoholic drink.
–verb (used with object)
21.to furnish (a plant, vine, etc.) with a stick or sticks in order to prop or support.
22.Printing. to set (type) in a composing stick.—Idiom
23.short or dirty end of the stick, Slang. the least desirable assignment, decision, or part of an arrangement.
Origin: bef. 1000; ME stikke, OE sticca; akin to OHG stehho, ON stik stick; akin to stick 2 Related forms:
stickless, adjective
sticklike, adjective

members (http://www.bing.com/search?q=members&src=IE-SearchBox) the first 10 result descriptions I got on Bing.com


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A member is a person who belongs to a group of people or a group such as a company or nation who belongs to another group like an alliance or consortium.
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Vascular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular) meaning looked up on wikipedia

Vascular
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In zoology, "vascular" means "related to blood vessels", which are part of the Circulatory system. An organ or tissue that is vascularized is heavily endowed with blood vessels and thus richly supplied with blood.
In botany, plants with a dedicated transport system for water and nutrients are called vascular plants. Vascular plants include ferns, conifers and flowering plants. A vascular bundle is part of such a transport system.



so what do these words have in common? where did they come from?

These are a mere 3 words that I randomly selected when I sat down to write. These three words each came from a different person, a different source (book, article, computer), and where completely taken out of context. I've decided to also define each by only the information I gathered from these individual words, each of which I decided to define through different means(see above).

we see many things, read many things, and hear many things every day. We gather information, lose information, and are manipulated by the information we read and hear whether we wish so or not. The media has a huge hold over our perception of the world and how we view things, yet, even with this hold things can be seen hidden deep within.

At first glance nothing is gained and no sense can be managed from these polar opposites, and yet after closer thought one begins to make connections or maybe a story, or at least an explanation...

Take a moment, what do see?

What do you come away with?


For me these words fall completely into place. A stick by definition is "a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off." This is most likely your first inclination of what a stick is when you hear that word. And yet depending on your culture, mood, or what you are doing other things begin to come to mind. Just read through the list and you can easily see a wide variety of subjects and objects. But for now I will begin with this simple definition that a stick is just a branch of piece of wood that has been broken off of a tree or larger plant structure.

Next is member, this word I defined directly by our media. I defined it by what we fed our selves everyday about that word, and the first things that come to mind, or that were forced to recognize and associate with that word. One of the descriptions states there are: "five permanent members" for that given council. So this begins to beg the question of what is the difference in permanence and temporary membership? how do I get a membership? what kind of membership and I looking for? another result states that: "members of the lower house". this indicates we are lead to believe that some members are higher or lower quality that others. Is it better to be a higher or lower? is it best to even be a member?

the final word is that of Vascular. I decided to define this by the online database of wikipedia, due to its ever increasing use for defining things or quick access. I also picked it because it symbolizes and utilizes us in determining a meaning or explaining something. Wikipedia is not an organization that knows everything it is in fact website that allows all of us to help contribute and define everything. Sometimes it is an expert on that given topic, other times it is an average person that stumbled across a word that was not defined and began the process for everyone to contribute. The word vascular on wikipedia has little information. it is short and to the point, but does it encapsulate the essence and entirety of what vascular is or was? vascular according to wikipedia is "related to blood vessels". We can also tell that this is not the actual organ tissue, but instead is something that describes a characteristic of that tissue. it later states that to be vascularized is to be "heavily endowed with blood vessels and thus richly supplied with blood". This implies that vascular can have varying amounts. It later states that in botany vascular plants are those that have "dedicated transport system for water and nutrients".

So what can be gained? learned? discovered? anything? or are these three words merely three words floating around and manipulated by our environment and our own connotations and implied meanings based on our own experiences?

well for one thing no person will come away with anyone exact meaning or even possibly a full understanding of what these words truly mean and entail, but my understanding is that:

A stick is broken, discarded unwanted., but a member is something valued. Vascular describe something that transports and enriches, while a stick can be used to tear others down. so where is the connection?

Members are those that give to an organization, they give nutrients, information and help when they need it and help provide for it just like vascular plants are describe as. as this institution or organization or council grows and reaches out it creates branches that also create potential. Potential to grow farther, to reach more, but also to break off. The larger the membership the easier it is for members to break off and become a mere stick laying under a beautiful tree. If too many of these members break off, the the tree will fail. But without the members the tree would still fail. So members are essential, and sticks are inevitable. We must remember this in life. We need others, we need to reach, grow, and create branches, but we also remember that with that growing comes risk of failure or losing a piece of ourselves, but without growing we never truly blossom into the person we could be.

We just have to remember to hold firm and remember who provide to true nutrients to help our lives expand.