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Joke De Roeck
May 11, 20203 min read
Give yourself grace
For the past month, dreaming has become an essential good. To escape the four walls, try and see over the fence into future plans. It has...
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Joke De Roeck
May 3, 20201 min read
You my dear
You my dear are a steady stream of wild inspiration a late night desert train rushing through kicking up dust seizing the view of stars...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 20, 20201 min read
Lockdown poem
Life’s been soft sharpness rolling with the hours they run fast sometimes making it hard to catch up and sometimes they move slow like...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Lockdown day 19
After 19 days I’ve finally found myself in the rhythm I’m living in. My body adjusted, getting used to the sunrise cold all wrapped up in...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 31, 20202 min read
All nights are days
As I’m about to embark on a new journey (it’s lockdown day six here in New Zealand, clearly the only journeying is to and from work) deep...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 26, 20201 min read
Feels good
Feels good to be home home, where the heart overflows into bowls of steaming pho soothe your soul take off your clothes slip on a fluffy...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Love in the time of corona
Wild times we’re living in. Corona virus forcing us into quarantine, hibernation as a must. Isolate yourselves with a pile of books,...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 5, 20202 min read
Festivals, frolics and other frivolities
Holy moly! Again, nearly a month has passed since I flipped open my laptop and wrote a good ol’ blog post. I’ve been all over the place...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 14, 20202 min read
Blissland
Dude. I’ve been neglecting my blog, journals and notebooks for a month now. One month of living in absolute blissland named Kiwiburn and...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 3, 20202 min read
The art of starting a new year
Aah, the start of a new decade, a sublime time to reflect on the past year and the blank sheet of paper in front of me. I’ve seen about a...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 24, 20191 min read
Road trip
Ain’t life sweet The sun coming up easy No where to be I call the world my home No key needed The door is always open Easy Pea caught my...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 22, 20192 min read
Rotorua adventures
While everyone is enjoying Christmas holidays, I got most out of my two days off last week. A random Wednesday and Thursday but when you...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 12, 20191 min read
Life is but a dream
I’ve always had a hard time finding out where exactly the thin line between dream and reality lives. Waking up from realistic dreams to a...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 1, 20192 min read
Van life in New Zealand
Smelling like tanned skin, salty crisp from dried up sweat and ocean swims. Many many kilometers have been spent in my car, Easy Pea...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 28, 20192 min read
My week with the Hare Krishna's
"Looking for volunteers to help out in the garden of our vegan yoga and meditation retreat!" I was already in the car on my way to Otaki,...
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Joke De Roeck
Nov 14, 20192 min read
Biting the horizon
“She was the girl who bit the horizon. The one who peeled the stars from the sky and put them on her tongue. She was the girl who was...
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Joke De Roeck
Oct 10, 20192 min read
The big move
“Isn’t it hard? To change your life around, sell all your things, grab a backpack and fly to the other side of the world? But most of...
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Joke De Roeck
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Ten days on a French farm
As soon as I got back to Belgium, new plans started to unfold. The car I bought just before summer was begging me for a road trip. Grape...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 18, 20121 min read
Last days NZ in pictures
Moeraki boulders, penguins, sandflies ate my feet, Lyttelton communal garden and a tiny bit of Christchurch containers.
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 17, 20122 min read
One big playground
Today we have to say bye to New Zealand. Our hearts are bleeding and our pants are tighter than ever, but it's time to move on to...
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