Ten years ago, Carles Capdevila was invited to the 30th anniversary celebration of the magazine Fent Carrerany from Maria de la Salut, a town in Pla de Mallorca where there are still grandmothers and grandfathers who sit at their doorstep chatting when evening arrives, oblivious to the planes that crisscross the sky at every moment, loaded with tourists who bypass those fields and those bell towers, and who head straight for the coast to feed the island-squeezing machine.Ten years later, Maria has not forgotten the conference Carles dedicated to them, with that wise division of life he made between entrepreneurs and annoyers. The magazine's people are of the first category, of course, and this weekend they celebrated the publication's 40th anniversary. The magazine is still alive because it is good, that is, it knows how to explain the monthly history of a town with its births, weddings and deaths, but also its projects, its reflections on the land and the people, and the successes of its bright children. Among these, the engineer founder of Open Cosmos, Rafael Jordà, who in March 2021 put the Enxaneta into orbit, the first nanosatellite that the Generalitat sent into space.It has been an honor to be hosted at Roqueta, Maria's original core, and to take over from the beloved Carles. Fent Carrerany is conceived and written in Catalan, like ARA, and the hours we have shared in Mallorca have made even more evident how rich and powerful the life of the national undergrowth is, which sustains the identity of the Catalan-speaking countries.
