Wellness Withfolklore

14/01/2026

Meanwhile in the Americas...

The fall of the Roman Republic, the rise of Julius Cesar and the rise of the Zapotecas.

12/01/2026

Tlalticapac the world is always changing.

This isn’t chaos with no meaning, it’s the true structure of reality.

In unstable times, Mexica thought teaches us to stand with purpose not cling to false stability.

Tlalticpac is a Nahuatl term that literally refers to “on the earth / the earth’s surface / the world (as earthly life)”. It’s built from tlālli (“earth/land”) + -icpac (“on top of”). 

And importantly: tlalticpac is not the “everything is flux” concept by itself.

That “life is unstable / slippery / dangerous” framing is a real theme in Nahua moral philosophy and texts about living on tlalticpac, but the “flux” idea is more cleanly tied to broader Nahua metaphysics (often discussed via teōtl and movement/change), while tlalticpac is the name for the earthly plane where humans live and struggle.

09/01/2026

The urge to pose sensually in the snow and write a poem is far too strong.

However well-deserved, I have adapted to life across many terrains, always searching for home, until I understood that life itself is movement.

In these frightening moments of history, I find myself strangely at peace. Hopeful. Because movement has not stopped. Because impermanence is not collapse, nor failure-

…it is Teotl breathing through change, and I am not afraid to move with it.

08/01/2026

Meanwhile in the Americas.... ✊🏽

What were our ancestors up to during the time of a Jesus?

07/01/2026

It's time to ask a different question...

How do parts of a system stay alive together without destroying each other?

It's time for a new ideology.

07/01/2026

Meanwhile, in the Americas ✊🏽

You’ve probably heard of the Tudors.
Henry VIII. Royal drama. England breaking from Rome.

But while all of that was happening in Europe, history was unfolding just as seriously in the Americas.

This series exists to widen our historical lens.

Not to compete.
Not to say “we were better.”
But to remind us that civilizations across the world were thinking, governing, building, believing, and adapting at the same time.

Why does that matter?

Because when we only learn history through one region, one empire, one lineage, we lose perspective.
And without perspective, we mistake cycles for destiny.

Understanding global, parallel history helps us recognize patterns power, collapse, resistance, reform and maybe ask a better question than “why does this keep happening?”

Maybe the question becomes:
what do we do differently this time?

This is Meanwhile, in the Americas a series placing world histories side by side, so we can see the full picture.

06/01/2026

29/12/2025

Let this new year guide you to freedom and decolonization ✊🏽

18/12/2025

Ōllamaliztli ⚽️

Is the oldest known ballgame in the world, dating back at least 3,000 years.

It was played, in different regional forms, by multiple cultures, including:

Olmecas (earliest evidence, c. 1400–400 BCE)
Zapotecas (c. 500 BCE–900 CE)
Maya (c. 250–900 CE, Classic Period, with continued play after)
Mexica (Aztecs) (c. 1300–1521 CE)

The game used a solid rubber ball and was typically played using the hips, thighs, and core.
Rules, symbolism, and contexts varied by time and place it could be recreational, political, or ceremonial but it was not universally sacrificial, as often exaggerated in modern retellings.