thequietcottage

It's going on a year. Remember family gatherings? Remember when we had a sense of normalcy? Here's my brother's surprise birthday in NJ ... Just to give you a glimpse of memories of how it was.

My Neighborhood Friend, Peter Baron. Peter was discovered at a sausage stand playing his guitar during the St. Anthony's feast by Leslie West of Mountain. Peter joined Leslie as a fill in, many times over the years. An excellent guitarist and an inspiration to all us wanna-be's! :)

Catskills New York, You don't need a John Deere up here to plow the fields, horses still do a lot of the work.

You can program to have a dream and remember it to give you solutions in life that you have in mind. You can program yourself in your dreams to be healthier. These are all taught in the first self help program in the world .. The Silva Method.

Fisherman, you all know the deal. You're jones-ing to go fishing. You've been inside for too long. You're getting on everyone's nerves including your own ... Well, it happened to me. It can happen to you.

We have years with big snows and for a 10 year period, I remember living in New York City, we had very mild winters. As a kid, I remember climbing over 5-10' piles to get out of my building. Who knows what's in store. With a country in chaos, will we be prepared to handle major weather catastrophes ?

When you come from Thailand, where the daily weather averages a humid 85-110 degrees in the shade, winter and winter snow opens up new possibilities ... and my wife's first experience came this year .... Here are the outtakes as she attempts to climb a snow bank.

What's it like a NYC Dweller who's lived his whole life in the city up to the country ... and not any country ... the boonies ... with foxes and wolves and chickens and pigs .... and not pigs like the ones in the buffet line ahead of me.

New York Rail Trail - a great day walk. Beautiful scenic views from the rail bridge. Interestingly, they put some plastic flooring on the bridge which gives you static electric shocks. Guess they didn't think that one out.

A FRESH FALLEN SNOWSTORM ! There's nothing like it. When I lived in NYC, most of my life, the day after a snowstorm, was like a winter wonderland ... But the next day, the soot of the city would settle on it and it was an ugly mess. It lasts a lot longer, the beauty, up here in New York's Catskill mountains.

Hypnotists are change experts. A good hypnotist will help you to overcome stress, change habits, sleep better, make better choices in your life.

Hypnosis: Your body was designed to heal itself. And it does a good job. Sometimes we have to intervene, but in that intervention, we disrupt the body's internal roadmap of how to heal. Hypnosis is a natural mind body process to get the emotional patterns in unison. Many new age doctors believe that we can cut out a cancer, but if the mental aptitude for sickness is still there, the body will recreate it.

Law of Success ... As A Man Think -it in his heart, so shall he be. We are what we think about. Have the right mental mindset, focus on success, your mind will notice the pathways. But if there is any doubt, negativity or belief you will not get somewhere, your mind will get you there.

Hypnosis is a Key Ingredient in the Mind Body connection. Case in point, studies during the Vietnam War, soldiers barely injured who BELIEVED they were going to die ... well, guess what. But there was other soldiers, severely injured, but maybe they had a young bride or child, they had such a strong will to live, despite their severe wounds, they survived.

Jose Silva, a Mexican American in Laredo TX, was one of the early developers of the Mind Body movement ... self help ...

Broken Heart Hypnosis, Can you reall mend a broken heart with hypnosis? Of course, you created the feelings in the first place as there was a time you didn't feel anything for that person in the first place. Imagine if you could go back in time, just before you met that person and see them in the light you see them now ... or see them from a strangers eyes ... you might be repulsed, or not like them at all .. Whatever your mind can conceive it can construct. Why is it sooo hard to let go of someone? Because we choose not too. Most people feel if we wait long enough or we try something new, or make them jealous, they will come back. It barely works. Matter of fact, your efforts are seen as a sign of weakness.

Hypnosis For Weight Loss, the mind over the body. Does it work? Most dietitians agree that the first priority, you must commit to a diet, you must have a desire the results. Now that desire could be that you are seeking a new relationship, or, going to a class reunion, or, extreme health problems. IF you don't have a desire to lose weight, it is just a wish.

How to feed birds: It's not complicated. No sense in buying expensive seed. Your Tractor Depot will sell you 30 lbs for 10 bucks. There are no gourmet birds out there.

Greenwich Village, New York: the most bizarre pet store in the world ... or is it. The cold night that I stumbled into here on the lower west side ... I had NO CLUE what I was looking at, you won't either .... I still don't know the name of this place ... or what happened ... I'm just glad I had my camera or no one would have believed me.

It's amazing as the thousands of fish churn in the water for a handful of pellets. And they're not small fish either. Thai people consider them sacred.

The first snow fall of the season can be beautiful, but it also can be dangerous. Up here in the mountains, there is a 4" shoulder off the roads and then ... instantaneous afterlife.

Ulster New York: Like many New Yorkers exiting the city and moving to the country and A HOUSE, you never know what to expect. Before, if a toilet got stuck, or your electric went out, help was a phone call up here. Not in the country, power outages, internet, all go down on a regular basis.

I went camping in my RV. My parrot - Puck - had spent most of his life indoors in a NYC apartment .... Well, this little plexiglass cage allowed me to take her camping upstate in my RV, before I got my house.

The first of two storms to completely annihilate my Koi pond. The fish were swept out to become fertilizer in the pool.

I get lost in thailand ... on a longboat ..... The best way to see the original Bangkok which is built on stilts