A thought has been shaping in my head the last few days, but only today I sharpened it enough to coherently express it. Or to call it a thought, in fact. In retrospect, I was groping for the right word. Namely, I am tired of proselytizing. Latching onto this word, which struck me as true, I reached for my old Webster’s Dictionary (Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam, 1979). The frayed book is always within an easy reach in my office. To proselytize or proselyte is to convert someone from one belief or religion to another—that is, to make or recruit proselytes or converts. Going back to its Greek root, however, a proselyte is an alien resident. Wow! To wit, I am tired of proselytizing because I am returning to Istria, where I will not be an alien resident any longer. Or am I taking this a bit too literally?