you can’t cover the sun with just one finger?
we are going to call this a new guatemalan proverb – the author? I first heard these perfect words in a darkened board room in guatemala city (the power was out – the sun behind some clouds) it was a line...

delivered with perfect timing and oratorical grace by a certain clever coffee exporter named ricardo safie. he was referring to the vicissitudes of the free trade movement – but I think it applies to so many things. especially in a world as bright, sometimes painfully bright, and immense as the world of coffee.
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