Eighty #16 2025 (Eighty Degrees)

A meditation on transformation, tension, and pause.

Issue 16 explores heat — not just as temperature, but as tension, energy, and change.

Within its pages, you’ll find echoes of warmth and pressure: identity found through cloth being cut; memories of distant pasts evoked through fragrance; resilience in a hostile world where each day must be cherished; imagined journeys beyond Earth where our rituals become inaccessible luxuries; the slow drift of seasons when light changes and we turn inward to the fire within; and the small choices that ease our lives but, at times, take something from them.

Tea remains the constant — a companion that steadies us while opening new ways of seeing.