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Hello my sweet Tumblr friends. I’ve been away, and I need your good vibes more so than ever.

A quick update: I was recently hit by a car while on one of my many liberating, empowering runs. I’m fine, just broke my tailbone- but what it’s done to me in terms of perspective is quite phenomenal. Add to this the fact that ‘Legends’ served his purpose and is now gone. An end in unfortunate bad terms, his deception/his loss- my gain during our time and I am better for it. I recognize and for this I am thankful.

Music remains my constant- aside from fitness which is on pause right now. But, I promise to myself not to run, hide from feelings, to live and continue loving and believing, living ‘balls out’ - it’s the only way to live, my friends, to feel we’re really, truly alive. Stay tuned for more poetry, more music, more prose & more love. Let’s live a life of abundance, yeah! - xoxo I missed you! - haven ;)

So when I started HavenStory a little over a year ago, i was down in the dumps and music uplifted me to no end. I made it my quest and journey to find new bands, artists, remixes of songs, etc. Fast forward to now and, well, I am pretty much still down in the dumps, but I have exhausted my time and priorities between friends, dating and of course work/career, things that are helping me cycle out of divorce land into new me land. Not much time is left to discover new music, sadly, sadly so. So in the interim, i shall change my tune: HavenStory will remain a blog about relationships first and foremost, a blog with the occasional poem, and the occasional song. But i don’t want to mislead you, baby, that this here is a music blog. It’s just my words interpreting feeling, sometimes in pure coherence, sometimes in pure pain, nothing but the raw. But, i will always, always, strive to be positive and shed that light in my posts, writings and well, everything around me… because the world is so beautiful, and I am blessed to have the people i do in my life, blessed to be on my own and explore the never ending possibilities of me and really just life. Cheers, my Tumblr friends! Have you uplifted someone today yet? I promise you will feel better for it, go on: Love someone, admire someone, respect someone today and again tomorrow and so on ; ) xo -haven

I’m baaacckk! And I’ve got sooo much new #music to share that I decided to create a series out of it. Over the week, I will post new music that is completely rocking my world. Hope you like!

First up: I’m so ridiculously obsessed (no joke) with NeedToBreathe and their latest “The Reckoning.”
You know how I love The Gaslight Anthem - well, not since discovering those guys a few years back have I been so excited with a new band discovery. NeedToBreathe have that grit, southern rock, balls-out passion that I just ADORE. I love to turn up the volume and blast their tunes. Reminiscent of Kings Of Leon (and they get many comparisons, I’m sure), NTB are a breed of their own - similar, yes, but they set themselves apart. Please, if you stop reading the series here at day one: remember just one thing: download The Reckoning - it is jam-packed with ‘single’-worthy hits - my favs are “Maybe They’re On To Us,” “Oohs and Aahs” “Drive All Night” “Able”, etc.

I was just thinking how sad that it gets darker soon, but who am i kidding? I am a night owl to my heart’s content ; ). I must be going through some sort of mania, because as depressed as I was today, I am now giddy: cooking, laughing, having wine & enjoying a playlist of Credence Clearwater, Bad Company, Jackson Browne & so on. Oh, and if only the aroma from my kitchen should come linger & waft your way: chicken pot pies, turkey chili, jalapeno cornbread & molten lava cakes. I don’t know when this cooking thing began, but it’s become therapeutic just like my 2-hour long work outs and equally long trail runs along the varied skylines of L.A. Thank goodness for good food and empowering work outs. Salud, baby! - haven

Hello my #Tumblr #friends, thanks for your messages, I’m better. Had a little bump in the road, but it was a good test in this positive momentum of mine. 

In the last few weeks, I’ve had some good lessons about people, and I’m starting to realize that, for the most part, I don’t think we set out to hurt each other. Rather, it’s in the manner in which we carry out our situations – sometimes more careless than not – that people get hurt. And what many of us don’t realize is that it is never, ever too late to reach out to that person that you hurt, that is confused by your actions or simply misunderstood and tell them that you value them – whether it’s the short amount of time you spent together laughing, whether it’s their good intentions or just the fact that they will be good at or with someone or something else. The end result here is: positivity. Leaving things on a positive note.

Let’s not let people walk out of our lives feeling crummy. It’s the one super power we all have – to make others feel respected, valued, thought of, noticed, acknowledged. It’s so simple and can be done with a sincere, ‘I wish you the best, you’re a good person.’ And so with that comes my new Haven’s Happenstance song series – Songs With A Message: over the week I’ll profile songs that have a positive, feel good message to them. Songs that somehow have been surrounding me for the last few weeks – whether I heard them at a café in Italy as I was having a bummed out moment, or they came on the radio as I was tearing up on a drive home, or songs that are just in my arsenal of “Come on Haven, get on up and feel good. Life is short, but oh so beautiful, don’t waste a second of it.”  Hope you like, chin up, xo – haven.

(Art by Samuel Loren Schmucker via mariposima reblogged moodsix: sisterwolf)