I began my journals begun thirty years ago today, 20 November 1977. The inside cover of this, my first book has an inscription in graphite by Jenny Lyle Ritchie, who was my girlfriend but later became my wife. I inscribed the first page using felt-tip pen, my preferred writing tool at the time, with a quote from artist Paul Klee: “Broadening the horizon: that by all means!” The four leaf clover was taped in the book by my great aunt Mary when we visited her in the summer of 1978.
