Today my father and I did go to a funeral of an old woman. But it was not a sad day, for she was old and the death was expected. Together we passed over the ford, the in-between place where the dead and living meet, a place that is neither wet nor dry, and we held a flask from the water of a ford in our hands. Oh, although it is only the dead that live in between, I at fifteen, neither girl nor women feel that I stand upon such a ford myself, unsure of where I am about to go, to either heaven or hell -- should I become a nun, a wife, or flee this life entirely and go to live amongst the fairy people. I intend to have fun, regardless, while I still can!
A must confess I cast my dream-fate not to be amongst that of the wedded women. But that is my secret, I write this only at night in my diary. Truthfully, I can barely watch the women spinning in the house, without their stillness making me sick. How I much prefer wandering outside of doors, almost like a man! That is what I love about the seasonal custom this time of year, of seeing the villagers go door to door in masks. If only I could be such a wanderer, even a beggar. The villages say that their masked figures represented the spirits of the dead and to refuse them food would be to invite their vengeance on the house. I always give them something. Of course, the priest says that because Christ came to the world, no such pagan worries should trouble our Christian heads, but I am not so sure and besides, I enjoy seeing the masks...
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