Very intrinsic words my friend. When your work is your passion, you create art. otherwise, it's all mechanical and lacks the true depth it takes to create something beautiful. Never is it only the cigar but the story behind it that adds another level to the experience. You ascend the moment I have with your cigar to a higher place when I know your love for the craft is so deeply imbedded in each puff I take. Thank you for that. I have not been a smoker of your work for long. I can say that the blends I have tried along with your stories behind each one, you have my full attention.
Side note: Do you have blends that you tried that didn't make the cut but years later were revisited and found to be a gem? Like a musician's song pulled out from the notebook long ago written, only to find that it was exactly what they wanted to say.