On our return from Istria to Slovenia a few days ago we stopped for lunch at Hum, the self-styled smallest town in the world. Lauren wanted our children to see where my mother’s mother was born. Her surname was Gržinić, and the cemetery is crowded with tombstones bearing this family name. The restaurant, where Lauren and I had dinner late last year, overlooks the lush Istrian countryside that must have looked rather similar when my grandmother was there. Hum is now one of the centers of Glagolithic alphabet, brought to these parts in the Ninth Century by Cyril and Methodius, who also spread Cyrilic alphabet in their attempt to Christianize the Southern Slavs. The Glagolithic writing enjoyed a revival when my father’s forebears arrived from Venice to Cres, or Cherso in Italian, on the island by the same name. This was in the Sixteenth Century. The revival lasted only a couple of centuries, and thus many of the documents pertaining to the Bons are in this alphabet. In the museum cum gallery in Hum I bought a little book about the town and the Glagolithic script. I am trying to learn it now. It is time to delve a bit deeper into my family’s history. Besides, the Glagolithic letters—or, rather, characters—are wonderful examples of entoptic forms and thus great subjects for my paintings. I have already painted a fair number of them earlier this year, and I plan to explore them in much greater depth.