Travel memories and faraway friends
This week I had a drink with a friend I met exactly three years ago in New Zealand, at a festival called Kiwiburn that changed my life...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 10
- 2 min
My treasure chest
For nearly ten years we’ve been following this tradition now, my Brussels friends and I. We rent a house somewhere in the south of...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
2022 Reflections
‘Twas the night before Christmas, or not really. More like the night before my flight to Belgium where I instantly turned into a snow...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 18, 2022
- 1 min
A poetic reminder
To remind you I do write commissioned poems if that’s something you would like to gift yourself or someone else under the tree stars...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
New Zealand memories
If you know me a little bit or if you’ve been reading these posts sometime over the past ten years, you have probably figured out I’m a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 2
The wedding After the funtastic festival that left me buzzing with delight, it was time to get back home to Valencia and scrub up for the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 1
The first days of November are to remember those who have passed on to other realms and to reflect on death. I decided to do this by...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
To the Queen of Sass
No way. I just lit a candle – I still can’t light a candle without thinking of you and where you and your contagious flame might be...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Blood on the dance floor
When you’re all out of chocolate but Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar is blasting through the living room and the windows vibrate and the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 16, 2022
- 2 min
Floating days and Death Cafes
It’s been a week of floating on fuzzy clouds, so high up hardly ever coming down. In the midst of poetry and friends warming my heart,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
High on adrenaline and poetry
It’s been three days and my heart is still beating in fireworks. Thursday night I organised an evening of poetry and storytelling where I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
Tuesday Night Black Ice Cream
Last night I saw Helado Negro performing his sweet tunes pouring them like warm oil in my ears I closed my eyes without thinking I was...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
A Night Of Poetry
Hello, lovers! What has everybody been up to and are you all just as excited as I am that AUTUMN IS HERE? This little troll is finally...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Letter
Today I received a letter. Nothing special, you might think. Well, think again baby, because this letter is literally a blast from the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Afternoon vinyl poetry
This afternoon I played that record where You sing remember the love we made Of course you’re not singing to me But now you’re asking I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
Ibiza dreaming
Certain things run through your life like a red thread. Connecting dots of past, present and future in a way you never thought possible....
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
The Valencian Void
How did we survive the days after summer camp when we were little? Did we indulge in milk and cookies and watch cartoons until we fell...
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Nocturnes
Oh how the night changes life as we know it people are less aware shame vanishes, embarrassment is nonexistent dancing is the new...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 30, 2022
- 1 min
Life's the road
Life's on a roll meeting people on a daily basis tagging along going places I wouldn't even know about if it wasn't for talking to...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
Daily stardust
Is the festival dust still settling? Am I seeing the world through kaleidoscopic glasses? Am I falling in love with Valencia more and...
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