In an enclosed letter with this book, a gift to the Sackners, Jody writes the following: "I wanted to share my latest book with you. I have been making drawings for the last few years and this practice has become something of a daily ritual. Each day I make a blind drawing (closing my eyes and marking marks on the paper) to a song on my ipod in addition to making a trace drawing from the daily newspaper (which I hold up to the window). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.