It is a symbol that captures tea's seemingly paradoxical duality: calming and stimulating; the joy and peace of the lake stirred by the astonishing inspiration and rousing thunder in our hearts. Take only one and you have an incomplete picture. It is a cup that calls to us, tilts our head up out of the fast, navel gazing banality of our everyday existence into something greater. With tea, we remove distractions and other justifications. It was said more simply on our tenth birthday announcement, "We believe in tea... but it's bigger than tea."

Curiosity inspires us to share. We look to the future as being a more open, eager, and humble tea community. In short, we want to put our work and investment towards the world we wish to live in and into those who want to create their own tea practice. We are a small team of many talents, a majority of whom are former specialty coffee and retail tea professionals.