Be Wee With Bea
Viewing comments for Chapter 12 "A Strange Warning Smell"An allegory in the Winnie the Pooh genre
10 total reviews
Comment from SueZen
Another charming chapter in the "Book of Bea". I love your style of writing and am totally captivated by Bea's adventures and can't wait to read on. She is somehow so familiar and in my imagination her sweet friends are mine too, so gentle, caring and supportive. And happy to read the last few lines, as was getting rather upset myself with the news of the manmade, messy blackness that brought forth the awful smell, etc.
Apart from being a great read/story, it has a very spiritual side/message to it, wonderful!
reply by the author on 05-Oct-2018
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Another charming chapter in the "Book of Bea". I love your style of writing and am totally captivated by Bea's adventures and can't wait to read on. She is somehow so familiar and in my imagination her sweet friends are mine too, so gentle, caring and supportive. And happy to read the last few lines, as was getting rather upset myself with the news of the manmade, messy blackness that brought forth the awful smell, etc.
Apart from being a great read/story, it has a very spiritual side/message to it, wonderful!
Comment Written 05-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 05-Oct-2018
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Thank you once again for all of the "bravo, bravo" stars. I'm so pleased you are enjoying it.
Comment from fluffnstuff
Hi there....nice adventure you are taking...I went back three times as I didn't recall Willow whom you stated I had just met in the write...am I wrong in that? just wondering how I missed it. Please let me know and continue your strolling by all means. Fluff
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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Hi there....nice adventure you are taking...I went back three times as I didn't recall Willow whom you stated I had just met in the write...am I wrong in that? just wondering how I missed it. Please let me know and continue your strolling by all means. Fluff
Comment Written 04-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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Willow is in the Chapter called Stand Proud just before this one. It is very poignant. I 5think you will really appreciate it. Check it out at your convenience. Thank you for your nice review.
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My pleasure...will do
Comment from Mistydawn
Poor Bee I bet it would be unsettling to find her precious golden path being covered up. Glad she found hope again. The story is well-written, very interesting, your adorable characters really come to life.
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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Poor Bee I bet it would be unsettling to find her precious golden path being covered up. Glad she found hope again. The story is well-written, very interesting, your adorable characters really come to life.
Comment Written 04-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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Thank you for your affirming review. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Comment from Joan E.
I appreciated your appeal to our senses of smell and sound and the artwork you selected to help establish the mood for this chapter. It was touching the Scruffles stayed with Bea all night to comfort her. Cheers- Joan
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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I appreciated your appeal to our senses of smell and sound and the artwork you selected to help establish the mood for this chapter. It was touching the Scruffles stayed with Bea all night to comfort her. Cheers- Joan
Comment Written 03-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2018
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Thank you for your appreciative review. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Comment from Roxanna Andrews
So the strange smell was the tar smell from the blacktop. Now Bea's Golden Path is paved. How sad, but she had learned to trust her Maker and see hope. Very cute story. I can see it as a children's book with wonderful illustrations.
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2018
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So the strange smell was the tar smell from the blacktop. Now Bea's Golden Path is paved. How sad, but she had learned to trust her Maker and see hope. Very cute story. I can see it as a children's book with wonderful illustrations.
Comment Written 02-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 03-Oct-2018
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Thank you for your affirming review. I'm glad you understand one of my messages I wanted to get across. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Comment from lyenochka
I'm not quite sure what the meaning of the bad dream was. Was it that Bea was in such a hurry that she didn't have time to be good to herself and no patience for her friend, Scruffy?
reply by the author on 02-Oct-2018
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I'm not quite sure what the meaning of the bad dream was. Was it that Bea was in such a hurry that she didn't have time to be good to herself and no patience for her friend, Scruffy?
Comment Written 01-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 02-Oct-2018
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Her dream was a warning dream that something was wrong and it may be about the path. So as soon as she woke she knew she had to go investigate. She was in such a hurry she didn't even take time for her exercises we read about in Ch 1 when she has her 'be good to myself "treat.
Thank you for your interest in clarification.
Comment from Beck Fenton
This is a new story and I finally figured out what the smell was. LOL It took me awhile. I wonder why Bea didn't hear strange noises that frightened her first and then she smelled the bad smell? I had some questions...
It was more like what she might be feeling if for some reason she'd eaten a whole pot of bad honey that had suddenly turned black. (Honey doesn't spoil or turn black, I believe. Jars of honey have been found edible from jars buried with Egyptian Pharaohs).
Scruffles' eyes didn't seem to want to open; he was in a very deep sleep. (I thought he was sick from something. Maybe he was just in a comfortable dream or still tired )?
All of the footprints of all of the creatures who had ever been privileged to tread upon BEA'S GOLDEN PATH were somewhere here underneath two inches of blacktop. (How does Bea know what it's called? Did she touch it? Had she seen it before on people paths)?
reply by the author on 02-Oct-2018
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This is a new story and I finally figured out what the smell was. LOL It took me awhile. I wonder why Bea didn't hear strange noises that frightened her first and then she smelled the bad smell? I had some questions...
It was more like what she might be feeling if for some reason she'd eaten a whole pot of bad honey that had suddenly turned black. (Honey doesn't spoil or turn black, I believe. Jars of honey have been found edible from jars buried with Egyptian Pharaohs).
Scruffles' eyes didn't seem to want to open; he was in a very deep sleep. (I thought he was sick from something. Maybe he was just in a comfortable dream or still tired )?
All of the footprints of all of the creatures who had ever been privileged to tread upon BEA'S GOLDEN PATH were somewhere here underneath two inches of blacktop. (How does Bea know what it's called? Did she touch it? Had she seen it before on people paths)?
Comment Written 01-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 02-Oct-2018
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Good questions. I thought I was going a bit out of character by having Bea call it black top. Hopefully that is the only time. Good catch. This happened to me when I went back to Grad school. I was so upset. I had loved walking on the path all the previous summer. It was between my dorm & classes. But when I went back & it was all tarred over.
Comment from Sally Law
Charming, sweet and whimsical as ever. I love this continuing story of Bea the wee bear! I'm glad I have you on my first read list, for the lack of a better name. That way, I never miss you and Bea. It's always a pleasure.
Kindest regards,
Sally
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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Charming, sweet and whimsical as ever. I love this continuing story of Bea the wee bear! I'm glad I have you on my first read list, for the lack of a better name. That way, I never miss you and Bea. It's always a pleasure.
Kindest regards,
Sally
Comment Written 01-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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Wow, how sweet a review. I am so honored that you choose to follow Bea on her Strolling adventures. Thank you.
Comment from Y. M. Roger
Oh, our wonderful Bea is confounded by the ickyness of a blacktop road! :) I don't blame her and Scruffles, yuck! Of course, I do prefer a big highway to travel on....just don't like the random pavings through the country!! :) :) LOL
Loved this little installation, Liz, Bea always makes me smile and I absolutely LOVE how she always find the bright side to things...and just 'knows' things will work out! :) :)
Thank you for sharing Bea and Scruffles with all of us! :) Yvette
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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Oh, our wonderful Bea is confounded by the ickyness of a blacktop road! :) I don't blame her and Scruffles, yuck! Of course, I do prefer a big highway to travel on....just don't like the random pavings through the country!! :) :) LOL
Loved this little installation, Liz, Bea always makes me smile and I absolutely LOVE how she always find the bright side to things...and just 'knows' things will work out! :) :)
Thank you for sharing Bea and Scruffles with all of us! :) Yvette
Comment Written 01-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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Thank you so much for your sweet review. I am honored that you are enjoying Bea's Strollings as much as you do. Thank you
Comment from BeasPeas
Hi Liz. This is another fine chapter to your story. You are a wonderful writer, clear, interesting story line, well detailed. I particularly liked the paragraph that begins with: "She told Scruffles that she was worried that someday all of the mud, topsoil, fallen pine needles, green grasses and other unnamed dirt paths would be covered with blacktop." Marilyn
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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Hi Liz. This is another fine chapter to your story. You are a wonderful writer, clear, interesting story line, well detailed. I particularly liked the paragraph that begins with: "She told Scruffles that she was worried that someday all of the mud, topsoil, fallen pine needles, green grasses and other unnamed dirt paths would be covered with blacktop." Marilyn
Comment Written 01-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 01-Oct-2018
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In my state, of Vermont USA we still have much of pour wilderness, but the blacktop is slowly creeping in. Thank you for your appreciative review. I also am mixed as I( would love to have my dirt road paved, this however was a dirt path alluded to, I delighted in walking from my graduate dorm to my classes. The next summer, it was paved over.
