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Joke De Roeck
Jan 27, 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...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 3, 20222 min read
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
Oct 24, 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...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Carysfort of love
Can you hear the wood golden strings singing within same story different guitar you touch it like magic fingers made for this bringing us...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Chez Jay dreaminess
After the retreat I soaked in a warm bath of friendship and saying YES to every possible event happening in this fresh start of NZ...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 3, 20212 min read
The retreat
In the chaos of heartbreak and the whirlwind that is life, I found myself in the middle of rolling hills in the Coromandel, pitching my...
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Joke De Roeck
Oct 12, 20212 min read
Changing it up
I guess it had to happen. Something had to happen to kick my butt out of the most uncomfortably comfortable routine life I found myself...
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Joke De Roeck
Sep 5, 20212 min read
Book thief
You did the best that you knew at the time. At the time of smashing my window, breaking into my little old granny car. Noticing the...
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Joke De Roeck
Aug 28, 20212 min read
Poetry busker
Have you ever had someone write you a poem in public? In the middle of the street or at a festival? I have and I absolutely loved it....
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Joke De Roeck
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Poetic itch
To all you gorgeous folk in lockdown and/or out in the open: if your itch for poetry has become too strong to handle, your yearning to...
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Joke De Roeck
Aug 21, 20212 min read
Lockdown brain
Yes, we’re locked down again. Like dogs put on a leash tied to a tree. This far and not any further oh no don’t you dare. I get it, it’s...
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Joke De Roeck
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Devotion
At 8 AM I take off my apron and run out of the cafe across the street to the beach where I join about fifty others ready in swimsuits...
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Joke De Roeck
Jul 21, 20212 min read
Morning thoughts
Feeling fine drinking tulsi tea thinking how can every day off be so sweet? Sugary sweet but the healthy kind, like the pumpkin soup I...
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Joke De Roeck
Jul 6, 20213 min read
Celebration upon celebration
Oooh baby! All the goods, all the time! That’s my state of mind and heart ever since I left the night shift side of life. Celebration...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 27, 20211 min read
Night shifts
The delicacies of living life at night. 6 AM tenderness as my tired body moves swiftly from a hot shower to a cold room, where I crawl...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Winter time granny time
You know winter is on its way when: You don’t mind working nightshifts, so you miss the coldest part of the night and you can sleep right...
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Joke De Roeck
May 24, 20212 min read
Weekend + all the feels
Friday was one of those days. Crying in front of the mechanic when he lists all the expensive issues my new old car has. Working a job...
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Joke De Roeck
May 10, 20212 min read
New dawn new day
I take a long drag of my neigbour's cigarette. It’s been years, but if there was ever a moment. Let this be it. The smoke tastes...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 28, 20212 min read
Enchanted holiday
So we went on an enchanted holiday. Magical as time tricked us into believing we went somewhere far and foreign for a week or two. In...
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