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Dreams and decisions
One day last week I made the biggest mistake you can make in the early morning moment of opening your eyes while the day's freshness is...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 242 min read


Hello 2025
Hello again! It’s me, your ultimate procrastination queen, writing to you from under the pink Valencian skies while Prince is blasting...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 182 min read


December craze and happy holidays
Oh boy oh boy it’s been a month! A deliciously good one, cold, cosy and confusing. Filled with friends and smiles and lots of snippets of...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 22, 20242 min read


Procrastinating the procrastinated
I’ve been unable to write. Then it was all procrastinating until I procrastinated on procrastinating and then I thought: fuck it, just...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 13, 20242 min read


The art of deep conversation
Yesterday I read an article about how everybody longs for more depth in their daily conversations. How we feel better if we’ve had at...
Joke De Roeck
May 4, 20242 min read


Raspberry jam
Sometimes life is holding on to what is close A gift of homemade raspberry jam A poem that made me think of you Rose kombucha brewing...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 30, 20241 min read


The year that was January
It’s February 6 and today I finally took the time for a date with my annual pages where I reflect on the past year and dream up stuff for...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 6, 20243 min read


The 5 euro massage
You know when life just rolls on and you wonder what the hell you’re going to write about on your blog because, well... routine? Then...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 26, 20233 min read


The need for softness
The need for poetry is greater than ever. I find crevices in words I want to escape in only to make sense of things. Never before did I...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 13, 20231 min read


Transformation
The first week of October lasted about a flutter of the eyelashes. So did the entire month of September. I guess that’s what it feels...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 7, 20232 min read


Life and death
On Thursday I was in a rush to get out of the door to meet my love for our anniversary dinner. I wanted to write him a card and opened...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 16, 20232 min read


All the feels
Hola! I know, it’s been a while... Again. I feel like I’m moving further away from the longing to write digital updates, more and more...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 25, 20232 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 27, 20232 min read


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....
Joke De Roeck
Jan 16, 20232 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 11, 20222 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 24, 20222 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 20, 20222 min read


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,...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 16, 20222 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 9, 20222 min read


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...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 5, 20221 min read
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