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Versions of you
Do you have favourite versions of yourself? You know how different situations bring out different yous? I am definitely loving travel...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 164 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Autumn in Belgium
I’m back in my rainy old hometown, spending time with loved ones and working. I’ve been here for 4 days now and seemed to have forgotten...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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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
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Barcelona dreaming
Peignoir season lasted exactly one day. Valencia has been showering me with sunshine so I’ve been gratefully receiving the rays at the...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Peignoir season
I’m wearing my peignoir so it’s official: autumn has arrived in Valencia. Not for long though, tomorrow calls for beach time again with...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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Still landing
I have absolutely no excuses. I came home to Valencia nearly two weeks ago and am still landing. If I wasn’t such an unpacking freak my...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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Mind wanders
Something deep inside made me crave hearing the song I would play every morning during my Erasmus in Valencia in 2009. I dance while...
Joke De Roeck
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Life on a ramble
I love women singing like men and men like women. I love fluidity. I love a husky morning voice. I apparently love dreaming I’m walking...
Joke De Roeck
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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Wonderlands
Do you believe in manifestation? I just found these writings I poured into a word document about 3 months ago: “I want… foaming rivers...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 21, 20243 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 16, 20242 min read
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Beachy poetry
On this sweet June day, a poem inspired by my recent trip to Lanzarote. Famara Skin crisp as that time we drove down winding roads...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 6, 20241 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
May 26, 20243 min read
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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
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Sleepover rediscoveries
Can I blame the moon or daylight savings or something because my rhythm is completely out of whack. Wide awake till late, gone for a few...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 6, 20243 min read
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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
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 16, 20242 min read
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