Our Word of the Year for this annus horribilus (although, to tell you the truth, in Room 105 it has been kind of an annus mirabilus so far) has been equanimity.
Starting around a thousand years ago, way back in September, we looked at some dictionary definitions of the word (Dictionary Wars!) and the Latin roots, and then set about exploring its meaning in many different contexts: Bruce Lee, Wu Mei and Wing Chun, the Hubble Telescope, the incredible Lynda Barry, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, Brené Brown, Leon Fleisher, and, with greater and greater frequency, Jeff Warren, Dr. James Maskalyk, and the Consciousness Explorers Club (we’re even made our own CEC, Jr.!).
In October (or was it November? who knows–with the combo of Daylight Saving Time and the current health restrictions, every day is kind of like the last, and it’s not just due to the number of times we play Giant 6-Square each week…) we made webs of the learning–or of the learning so far.
Criteria:
- Hierarchy of size
- Use of special features to increase clarity of communication
- Personalization of content
- Thoroughness in content
- Using the fewest possible words to capture the essence of ideas
- Finding connections across the web
Here are the results!
Full-size:
Close-ups:
Now stop looking at this and go do nothing.