5/27/19 Report - Memorial Day 2019. Burial Flags. Facts. Treasuring.

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The VA Service and Distribution Center (SDC) supplies burial flags to VA facilities and U.S. Post Offices (USPS) throughout the country and around the world.  The flags are then issued directly to funeral directors and families of deceased Veterans.  Burial flags are provided free of charge to the next of kin of honorably discharged Veterans.  Additional information on burial flags and burial benefits is available at the NCA Home Page.

Here is the link to the National Cemetery Administration.  Among other things, it tells you how you can get burial flags, such as the one above, and gravesite markers for veterans.

https://www.cem.va.gov/burial_benefits/burial_flags.asp

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According to a recent poll many people think that Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer. Others think it is the same as veterans day. 

Did you know that the first observances of what we now refer to as 'Memorial Day' were intended to honor those who died in battle during the Civil War. Claiming more lives than any other conflict in U.S. history, the Civil War required the establishment of the nation's first national cemeteries, according to History.com.

Here is a link that will take you to a site that tells many more interesting facts about Memorial Day.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/did-you-know/13-memorial-day-facts-you-didnt-learn-in-school/ss-AAB5KlB?ocid=spartandhp

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I picked up this painted stone a couple days ago when I was taking a walk.  It is obviously nothing special, but it made me think a little.

Painted Stone Recently Found.

I know it was probably painted just a few days or maybe weeks ago - maybe at Easter time, but I wondered what if I didn't pick it up and it was found by someone a hundred years from now?  Would it be valued as a historic artifact if it was found in the year 2119.  I don't think so, but maybe.  How about five hundred years or a thousand years in the future?  Then it might be thought of as something to study,  Would our current age and culture then seem like a lost mystery and something of interest to study?  I really don't know, but I suspect it might.

Even now there are questions.  Was it done by a child?  Was it nothing more than an art project, or was it meant to have another purpose or significance?  

One natural response would be to say, it's a painted stone, and that would be the end of it. But it might have meant a little something more to the person who made it.

It could have had a personal significance, such as these memory stones that I found online.

So, I'll be putting it back.

I once found something similar in the ocean, except it was ornate and made of metal and had an inscription to the deceased.

I'll never know exactly what the painted stone is about, but for some reason I encountered it, in the same way I encounter so many objects along the way.
  
We talk a lot about treasure, but "treasure" can be either a noun or a verb.  As a noun it refers to a concentration of wealth.  As a verb it suggests the act of cherishing.

Different people hunt for different kinds of things.  Some people want to find what ever they can sell for the highest price.  They tend to treasure what is valued highly by others.  Other people like objects that might not be the highest priced, but lead them on a journey or tell a story.

Is there an art to treasuring?  Do some people do it more or better than others?  I suspect so. 

If you study an object, you might learn to appreciate the object more.  You might connect the object to other people or history or yourself in a more meaningful way.  

You can add value to an object by studying it.  The history and provenance can make it more valuable.

An otherwise ordinary object can be turned into a treasure, if you treasure it.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  I suspect it works the other way too.  Where you heart is, there will your treasure be also.

Treasure those that are with you today, and treasure the memories of those who are not.

Thanks to those who fought and died for us.

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/4/15 Report - Lost Wedding Band. Mel and Deo Fisher Collection Auction. Intuition and Forms Of Paranormal Perception. Balloons Coming Home.

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One of Two Possible Locations of Wedding Band Lost In Ocean.

A man's yellow gold wedding band engraved "Amélie & Pierre" was lost in the ocean at either Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale Aug. 2.  It wasn't noticed missing until he was in the water at Fort Lauderdale but was in the ocean at Palm Beach in front of Peruvian Ave. (shown above) earlier.

They don't know exactly where they were in Fort Lauderdale at the time.

Check for the engraving, which will provide a good ID.

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 To view the online auction of the Mel and Deo Fisher Collection here is the link. 

http://www.invaluable.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=c&catalogRef=LCOZ5LM9LU


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Here is an interesting story.  Not metal detecting, but I thought it was interesting anyhow.

An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father's Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site — and may have gotten a "message" back.

The pair was stunned when — after leaving the cemetery, running a few errands, and driving 25 mile back home — the balloon's note showed up at their house...

Once home, Saige went downhill from their house to the pasture where she and her father worked together and spotted her message with the balloons — only a few hundred feet from the house....

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/balloon-released-fathers-grave-flew-25-miles-familys-home-n402721

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The following remotely relates to the above story.


Nearly half of the adults in the United States believe in the existence of ESP, which includes telepathy (direct knowledge of another person's thoughts), clairvoyance (direct knowledge of remote events), and precognition (direct knowledge of the future). People commonly report unexplained knowledge of a loved one's death or a telephone caller's identity, for example, and attribute this knowledge to paranormal mental processing.

I've had those times, and I've sure many of you have too, when it seemed that a find was more than coincidental.

One time, for example, I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, but kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location.   But I didn't have hardly any time.
I finally decided I would run down to the beach.  By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had less than a half hour to hunt.  Well, I went in and in just a few minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat.  I took my find and quickly left.

Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time.  If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time.  But I felt like I should go.  It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.

I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else.   I can't say with confidence that it was anything other than coincidence.

I do a lot of analysis.  I try to figure things out and make good calculated decisions.  You know that if you've been reading this blog very long.   Nonetheless,  I will follow my feelings at times regardless of anything else.  I doesn't pay off a lot.  I tend to do a lot better with a more analytical calculated approach.

One recent study by Harvard University claimed that by studying brain functions they found no experimental evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance or precognition.  Other books on similar things by scientists with good credentials indicates that there are conditions for such things and not all people have the same abilities. 

I find the Harvard study woefully inadequate anyway.   They were looking for electrochemical brain responses.  That is how normal perception works, but they were supposedly investigating "Extra-sensory" or paranormal perception.  Why would you expect paranormal perception to work just like normal perception.  If it did, it wouldn't be paranormal. 

I am not convinced either way and think alternative methods of perception may be possible, but I have no convincing evidence of them.  

Intuition could be nothing more than the assimilation of a lot of knowledge that isn't completely consciously clear at the time.  As tasks become automatic, you don't have to always be aware of each and every part of the task.   For example, you don't have think about putting one foot in front of the other and transferring your weight when you walk.  After you learn to walk, it becomes automatic.

Anyhow, I find good analysis and calculated decisions much more consistently productive, but I'm not ready to deny or ignore all of the subtle notions and feelings that I get.  As remarkable and stunning as intuitive successes might seem, they are much too rare.

I'd like to hear your stories of finds made through unusual coincidence, dowsing, intuition, ESP or any of those kinds of things.

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On the Treasure Coast we still have the one and two foot surf.  Expect the same for several days.  We are having some decent size tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net