That time our cacao got spiked at ecstatic dance
It was an innocent plan, to go to an ecstatic dance on a Saturday night. We had been a few times before and it’s always a great idea of a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Blue Monday Magic
If - like me - you are one of those nostalgic souls who easily catch a bad case of the winter blues, today could be especially gloomy....
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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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
Stick on moustaches and other sweaty stuff
Ah, Valencia! Where a sense of perpetual vacation is floating in the air. Where cockroaches are fat, juicy and deeply disappointed in...
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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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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Coffee lover
Make coffee as if you’re making love to me warm your hands as the heat rises the body of the plunger about to burst no need to let it...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 17, 2022
- 3 min
Back from Nowhere
As soon as I knew I was moving to Spain, I had one mission in mind: to go to Nowhere. Even though this festival has been on my burning...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
Sunday eve setup
Welcome to my Sunday eve setup. White wine fresh raspberries a house smelling of brownies chocolate everywhere. Fueled up on the same...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Full moon brain stew
I’ve been wanting to write about my visit to Belgium since coming back home to Valencia a week ago. But I couldn’t. Because this heatwave...
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Joke De Roeck
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
Core festival: hasta nunca baby
Core Festival. What the hell are you? Not the love child of Rock Werchter and Tomorrowland, as we all expected. Maybe the morning after...
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Joke De Roeck
- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
Summer of love
When an entire summer of love fits into one day you end the night falling asleep with a body sore from moving salty from sea and sweat...
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Joke De Roeck
- May 13, 2022
- 2 min
Life in Spain
Hola cariños! Life is not all poetry and sparkles (but it is!) and I’ve been asked what I've been up to behind the scenes of this virtual...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 19, 2022
- 1 min
Port wine in summertime
Girl I've been making love all night fell asleep to the taste of sweet port wine he made the sun set in my third eye all went dark until...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Sexual healing
Massive inner censor reactions to this one, but here we go. My journals and conversations have been overflowing with words on love,...
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