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...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 301 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 63 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 26, 20233 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 13, 20231 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Oct 7, 20232 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Sep 16, 20232 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 25, 20232 min
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...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 27, 20232 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, 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
Dec 11, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 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
Oct 9, 20222 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, 20221 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 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
Jul 3, 20222 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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