Viva Enfarinats!

Enfarinats
Francisco Sanchez Fotographias

In a tradition that dates back more than 200 years, the town of Ibi, Spain,
celebrates the festival of Els Enfarinats on December 28th with a mock battle
taking place outside the town hall. Participants attack each other with eggs, flour,
firecrackers, fire extinguishers, and more. The annual battle involves an a group
of married men called “Els Enfarinats,” who stage a coup, taking over the town,
declaring and enforcing ridiculous new laws—and “La Oposicio,”
another group who try to restore order. At the end of the day,
any money collected in fines by “Els Enfarinats” is donated to charity.

Composition by:  
Kay Lynn Gabaldon  

April, 2106

Carl Sagan's Story of Red

Ladies in red
Nadia Del Lange

“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out
robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand
how the world actually works that white light is made of colors,
that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light,
that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates
among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason
that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance
of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”

Carl Sagan

Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

December, 2015