This month, we’re celebrating the quiet skill that comes from doing something carefully, over and over, until your hands begin to know more than your thoughts. It feels right: a gentle return to focus and calm attention before the world speeds up again.

Both coffees come from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, where high mountain air and cool nights create ideal conditions for slow, deliberate craft. Here, everything moves like clockwork. Ripe cherries are picked at their peak, fermented for just the right number of hours, washed clean, and dried patiently in the sun. Each motion depends on the last, and every decision shapes the clarity in the cup.

That rhythm defines producers Aurelio Villatoro and Arcenio Castillo. Their work is careful but unhurried, the result of years spent learning their land’s timing and temper. Over time, repetition becomes intuition, and precision turns into something almost musical.

In the cup, you can taste that balance: clean sweetness, gentle structure, and a calm confidence that only steady hands can create.