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 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
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Inner winter in winter
It’s been a week. Inner winter in winter, let’s go. Full moon rising over the ocean, pumping myself full of vitamins as everybody around...
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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
- 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
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Finishing things
I am a forever procrastinator, always living high up in the clouds and never ever finishing a thing. My therapist once suggested: just...
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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
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
Inner censor
Do you sometimes feel like you’re being censored in your creativity? By your work, family, society, maybe even friends but most of all:...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
The retreat
In the chaos of heartbreak and the whirlwind that is life, I found myself in the middle of rolling hills in the Coromandel, pitching my...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 12, 2021
- 2 min
Changing it up
I guess it had to happen. Something had to happen to kick my butt out of the most uncomfortably comfortable routine life I found myself...
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 15, 2021
- 2 min
Devotion
At 8 AM I take off my apron and run out of the cafe across the street to the beach where I join about fifty others ready in swimsuits...
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Joke De Roeck
- May 24, 2021
- 2 min
Weekend + all the feels
Friday was one of those days. Crying in front of the mechanic when he lists all the expensive issues my new old car has. Working a job...
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