Desert dreaming
Outside the city is taking a long tropical shower. Like a voyeur I’m sipping my coffee inside, all fluffy in my peignoir. Windows open...
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Joke De Roeck
May 263 min
Island magic
Lanzarote contains a certain magic that was so easy to grasp while roaming the island, yet the words evaporate from my pen as soon as I...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 182 min
Zoom in mode
I’m in zoom in mode lately. The little things get all my attention. I’ve been going for long morning walks in the park, smelling every...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 6, 20233 min
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, 20232 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, 20232 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, 20223 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20221 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, 20222 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, 20221 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20221 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, 20223 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20221 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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