One thing Bea the wee bear doesn't have any trouble sharing is the wisdom she has received from the maker of bees. She has found much wisdom in her honeypots during some of her exercises. She had gotten pretty good at doing her brain exercise and fine motor weightlifting at the same time -- which simply means she could figure things out while enjoying her "be-good-to-myself" treat.

One time when she thought there was no honey left in any of her honeypots, she decided it was time to do her investigation exercise. Using her wee nose she looked inside each empty pot to see if there might be just enough to do just a few more fine motor weight lifting exercises.

She found that the pots were not empty after all. They were not full of honey but were filled with something almost better for a wee bear. One who was deciding whether or not to get involved in someone's problems.

There was all kinds of wisdom to be found while searching through each honeypot. It turned out to be a meditation exercise, where Bea at first thinks of nothing other than the inside of each empty pot. Because there is nothing to distract her except the emptiness of the pot, her mind can be empty. And then become filled with wisdom.

Bea may not always have understood what wisdom means but she surely knows how it has helped to answer many, many questions. It's a kind of "just knowing something." As she sat doing her brain exercise, she got an idea and then another and another. Each pot, as she stuck her nose into it, became filled with an answer to her question.

She was afraid that one particular pot would be filled with her wee bear nose when she got a little too deep into her investigation exercise and got her nose stuck. She then had to do her detaching from things which have a hold-on-you exercise. We have seen that time and time again Bea has struggled to use this wisdom. She can't seem to remember what can happen when someone gets their nose stuck in very uncomfortable places which are not meant for them. The place could be a clay pot of honey or in this case -- someone else's business.

Sometime before meeting her dear friend Scruffles the Raccoon Cat, she was feeling very lonely and wanted to understand more about being lonely. She decided to talk to the maker of the bees, who understands Bea when she has too much or too little. Bea realized that being lonely is something like her honeypots when they no longer have any honey left. Yes, that's it; she gets an empty feeling -- a very, very empty feeling, with a hollow sound echoing all around inside her as if the fifty buzzing bees have left and there is only emptiness.

She stills herself and does her brain exercise and thinks how about how to get beyond moments of loneliness. This is similar to how she might go about solving her problem when her honeypots are empty. If she were to stroll to a friend's to ask for some honey, she might get to their door and there'd be no answer. She might know of a place they'd said a key would be left for, such as under the mat. What would happen if she found no key there? Or if some of her friends lived in places fairly inaccessible to Bea. The doors might be too small, too high, or too deep in the ground. What would she do?

One of the problems in this plan of Bea's is that if she did by chance find someone home, she, unfortunately, would find difficulty in holding herself back from asking them for all of their honey. This behavior would go against any manners her mother taught her. She would instantly wear out her welcome.

Somehow she could never bring herself to do things in moderation. Ah, that was just another on her list of exercises she could definitely begin to practice. And if she stopped to consider her friends' needs she would realize that she would be leaving them with only empty pots. No one would be any better off. Soon her newly acquired honey would be gone. She'd be holding only empty honeypots again. The other thing she could do is just sit and do nothing and stay hungry and be miserable.

But the best most productive and most rigorous exercise she could do was to go in search of her favorite honey tree. Just like going to search for honey in uncertain places, she needs to find the friend that she knows is really going to be there for her. Only she can solve her loneliness problem. We have seen this proven with her enriching relationships with Timothy. And of course, she knows that her two best cave-mates, Scruffles, and Sweet Puppy will do the best they can.

She is suggesting that we do this rigorous brain exercise in particular, among all others. Even though it is very rigorous, it can be most effective in helping us to realize that we are all like her honeypots. Sometimes full but sometimes empty. Sometimes lonely. Sometimes not. That's just the way of things.