Do you have a personalized license plate on your vehicle?...I haven't had one for many years...and the only one I ever had came about following a personal development seminar...HYBEAM...it was the "one word" I used to describe the phenomenal feeling I was experiencing following a Warrior with Heart training I took in 1986...where I met an amazing group of people I am fortunate to call friends to this day...
When I bought my new-to-me car, I decided I would get a personalized plate...one that would support a cause I hold dear to my heart...the arts...and I set out to find the perfect word...a word no one else had used...a word that would make me smile each time I saw it...a word only a committed logophile would want...
That's when an online article came to my attention through an RSS feed I read...it was about a woman named Lisa Park...and her fascinating and unusual experiment in the conceptual arts...a work she calls "Euonia"...meaning beautiful thoughts...she uses an EEG device and her thoughts to vibrate water in various patterns according to her brain activity...
She has not yet achieved her original goal of consistently replicating patterns or mastering stillness and silence...and I feel her beautiful thoughts will one day reward her...in the meantime, her one word will reward me...with an ever-present reminder to connect with that feeling place inside where all beautiful thoughts await their full expression...
Lisa Park performing her piece...