Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Source:nhc.noaa.gov |
The big news today is the weather. We've had a very sandy summer. Now there is something that could give us some erosion, but according to the present predictions, it probably won't - not much anyhow. Still, it is too soon to say exactly where the storm will go, so we need to keep watching it.
At this point MagicSeaWeed is predicting nothing higher than a four foot surf for the Treasure Coast for the next seven days.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Even if the storm doesn't affect the Treasure Coast much, it looks like it will affect the Keys.
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| Vintage Post Card Showing Museum of Sunken Treasure, Cape Canaveral Florida. |
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| Find by John M. |
Can you tell if it is fake or real? That is what John was wanting to know.
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Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known coin mint, along with pieces of spade-shaped metal currency, inside a bronze foundry dating to 770 B.C.E. in Guanzhuang, China. Using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, the new research, published this month in Antiquity, reveals the coin mint began operating between 640 and 550 B.C.E., after the foundry switched from producing other valuable items to creating currency.
This discovery marks Guanzhuang as the world’s oldest-known minting site. Guanzhuang is located near the Yellow River in the Central Plains of China and was founded in 800 B.C.E. It was subsequently abandoned sometime after 450 B.C.E. Archaeological excavations of the city have been ongoing since 2011, where researchers have uncovered fortifications, including wall foundations and moats. “Ceramics, burials and historical records suggest that the site was a regional centre of the Zheng State,” the researchers write...
Here is the link for more about that.
Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry – ARTnews.com
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I watched the Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction speeches last weekend. Every inductee thanked family, coaches, team mates and more. They acknowledged how many others helped them succeed.
Yesterday I wrote of the mudlarkers of 19th century England, including the poor children that had little success in life beyond living a few years. They celebrated little successes - perhaps a piece of rope, nail or lump or coal. Many died young. Where was their family, friends and coaches? Were they simply undeserving people reaping the results of their own behavior, or was their life simply the luck of the draw?
There is no explaining why one person is born healthy and another with disabilities. There is no explaining why some are born into fostering families and others into toxic environments that make even daily survival a battle.
Every one of those who were inducted into the Hall of Fame thanked many of the people that helped them along the way, Who, we may ask, failed to support and help those that most desperately needed the help? I hate to think, but unfortunately know, that it was you and me. It was tens of hundreds or even thousands that were too busy, distracted or uncaring. We say we had our own challenges or simply didn't know how to help or didn't know who we should help or if they could be helped.
I know that people contribute to their own problems and failings. They make bad choices. And some people can not be helped. For whatever reason they are on a determined track to destruction and will drag others down with them.
Still, there are countless numbers that can be helped. Maybe you've helped some of those and didn't even know it. Perhaps it was something as small as a word they needed, or a smile.
But what I took from the Hall of Fame Induction speeches is that every success involves a lot of factors, and a lot of people, as well as something out of our control, which we call luck. But every broken life involves those things too.
Those who support a winner are fortunate. They see the fruit of their efforts and celebrate, but those who try to help the unfortunate, may never see success. Maybe that is why so many do not try. We are afraid our efforts will fail, and instead of rejoicing in success, we feel their failure. But doing the right thing is never a waste. It is never a failure.
The point is that every life is more complex and interdependent that we know. For every person that is thanked for contributing to a great success, there are many who vainly tried to help a soul that could not be helped. And there were many more who failed to lift a hand.
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I'll keep watching the storm situation. It could be a summer when nothing much happens to the beaches, but it only takes one good storm to open wider the window to treasure.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net