In 2007, Scott Menchin, a member of our board of advisors and a contributor to the first issue of Esopus, told me about Robert Guest, a Brooklyn-based exhibition designer he knew who had created personalized notes for both of his children, Joanna and Theo, every morning from the time they were in kindergarten until their graduation from high school. As the kids grew, Bob’s notes, always folded into small triangles and left in their lunch boxes—evolved from elaborately drawn puzzles and games into complex, deeply felt ruminations on life, love, adulthood—and nearly every other subject imaginable. This drawing is from a layered file I created in Photoshop that served as a background “stack” for one of the notes that was published in Esopus 10. Folded Wisdom, a book by Joanna Guest featuring many of these notes to her and her brother, was published by Celadon Books in 2019.