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 4
- 2 min
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
- Apr 18
- 2 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
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Belgian holidays
Hello wide awake heart beating to the rhythm of caffeine! It’s evening and I’m dipping speculaas (I refuse to call it biscoff) in my...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 20
- 3 min
Valencian infatuation
I love where I live. I’ve always felt that the place you land and decide to call home, even if just for a while, is important. For your...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 6
- 3 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
- Dec 8, 2023
- 2 min
New Zealand partnership visa (expired)
It’s been exactly two years since I left New Zealand, and exactly two years since I received a partnership visa that would allow me to...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 13, 2023
- 1 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 24, 2023
- 3 min
Autumn arrival
Last week was a funny one. The best way to explain the realm I was moving in is: jetlagged or in limbo between dream and reality,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 7, 2023
- 2 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
- Jun 25, 2023
- 2 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
- Jun 11, 2023
- 2 min
Camino + Clue
My cycle app does this new thing I’m not a fan of. As soon as I click open the app, all of a sudden it states in big red letters: "Your...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 25, 2023
- 2 min
Early bird (for once)
I don’t know if it was the mosquito or my anxiety waking me up before 6. I pushed my earplugs deeper in my earholes but the mozzie was so...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 20, 2023
- 2 min
Spring time juice
Spring has sprung, baby! Well, Valencia is more in a summer mood but I'm talking the start of something... Fresh! The city is drenched in...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 10, 2023
- 2 min
Homegirl
I am slowly turning into a little house witch. Living in one place, no crazy big stories to tell. In case you were wondering why it has...
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Joke De Roeck
- Mar 19, 2023
- 1 min
Sundaydreaming
Late morning musings Patti Smith shirt Book of Days Sunshine balcony Bare feet Black coffee Grateful Dead Dreaming of New York in The...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 18, 2023
- 2 min
One year in Spain
Valencia! It’s been one year of living in you. You, glorious place made of dreams. Where scents of paella ambush your nostrils from every...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 9, 2023
- 2 min
Procrastination queen
This third poetry book has been on my procrastination pile, mind and to do list where it has been collecting dust. To be a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 27, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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