Welcome to the world of the Majdelene.

My first experience with the Majdelene, although I didn't know it at the time, was when I was on vacation with my parents and my younger brother at a summer lodge in New Hampshire in 1955. I was fixing to turn six years old.

My Mom, being born and raised up north, didn't much care for all the heat and humidity of Miami, Florida (where we lived) and as Dad worked for Pam American Airlines, flying Mom out of the heat each summer was a natural.

Doesn't do anyone any good to have a mom all melting and drippy all summer.

Grandma Neddi came along and as we were fixing to leave at the end of that summer, while I was packing my suitcase, Grandma Neddi offered me a $5 gold piece,,, nice and shinny it was,,, if I would toss my old raggedy teddy bear off in the woods and leave him behind.

I took her up on it but, I had a real hard time explaining how all my clothes were in the woods in New Hampshire and Fred, my teddy bear, was in the suitcase when we got back to Florida.

Needless to say,,, I had to give back that shiny $5 gold piece, meaning,,, my first encounter with the Majdelene cost me money.

(I recount my first meeting with the Majdelene, fictionalized in a Hill Country, Texas way, in my story entitled “Gramp's”.)

The following pages may just help in the universal understanding of just why everyone thinks so “goodly” about teddy bears.

Maybe too,,, knowing that when you were young, there really was a friend no one else could see,,, but you.

You will find underlined words that you may or may not know. If you don't, turn to the explanation dictionary at the rear of the book. I suggest that you do the best you can reading, as if you sound out the word, a lot of times the definition comes in the rest of the sentence or paragraph, before going to the explanation dictionary

But, before you do, see what words in this introduction you don't know and then use the regular dictionary before you begin reading the story.

If you are a Dad, (or Mom) and you are reading this to your child,,, have some fun reading this to your child, have some fun being animated (yes, that means standing up and shaking your “fuzzit” when called upon) and be as silly as you can read,,, when called for.

If you do not mind too much, I have taken some liberties with the “written word”. I could say that my usage of seemingly overly long sentances at times is for the story's sake, when in truth it is simply how I write,,, how I tell a story. So, too, the use of three commas. A comma, of course, is used to have you pause for a moment,,, when in my case, I simply wish you to pause for three moments. (You'll see as you read.)

Future stories of the Majdelene:

pi'Ng^ & Du'C,,, Du'C heads for Iraq to help one of our troops and ends up supporting many of the brave men and women there. When time comes for Du'C to come home, he stays in the arms of an Iraqi child who needs a friend.

Sar'Ha has her “Great Adventure” when she helps two pre-teen best girl friends stay best friends for life and she sneaks off with Ru'Di's necklace, the one that brought so^Ng back home.

Ke'Mo & so^Ng,,, wedding bells finally. But, what's the wedding cake doing on the ceiling?

A'Sha, the “I can't make up my mind Majdelene”, that is until she is called on to help a child deal with cancer.

Ru^Sel, is called from the past when Ke'Mo is gravely ill.

Fr'Ind's “Great Adventure” helps a child deal with divorce.

Ch'Ok,,, Po'Clin,,, To'My and Ka'Rn team up to save two brothers and a sister from abuse.

Ti'M is called on to make sure that a talented 12-year-old boy takes his schooling as seriously as he does his soccer. Two in a row,,, 7th Grade,,, is usually real a change in life style, of epic proportions,,, facing three in a row,,, 7th Grade,,, warrant's “Biblical” proportions.

Al'lne & Bu'Dy bring a runaway and his grandparents together. It is, after all in society, quite amazing when,,, how do we say???,,, flatulence can be a common bound.

Finally,,, Majdelene exist. So too, their land.

If you decipher the language / spelling used in this and all the rest of the Majdelene stories, you can find the place on a real map. I will give you a clue,,,

In this story, Majdelene still have their main village on the East Coast in the USA,,, and, yes, there are other Majdelene villages throughout the world, although smaller ones.

And,,, yes,,, a Majdelene village can move when “encroachment” encroaches too close. Especially “modern”,,, and, human.