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 27
- 2 min
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 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 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
- 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 27, 2022
- 2 min
A dreamy recollection
It’s been a while, I know I know. I’ve been hiding in the mountains for the past few weeks. Somewhere near Granada, in a tiny town called...
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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
- 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 21, 2022
- 2 min
Jackie of all trades
Hello autumn, you season of cosiness. The change of season is always an excellent time to start a new chapter, I believe. September and...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Sunkissed bliss
Sunkissed skin Bringing summer in Pouring golden glows Into my pores Time to pause No need to worry cause This is your holiday Working...
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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 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 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 18, 2022
- 2 min
Poetic nerves
Last week I did something that scared me. It still makes me nervous thinking about it and it has been making me nervous for many years....
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