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The bird who made good;

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Che-Wee is a purple finch who belonged to a writer in New York, her co-author as he perched on the pen she used or on the typewriter and rode there, never flinching as the keys strike up close past his beak. He thinks he is a person, not a bird. Just as Star, my cat, steers me in the right direction and is my constant companion, as I listen to Music Of Your Life (that's the only kind of music she has heard in her thirteen years, and she loves Michael Feinstein almost as much as I do. She especially loves Ken yOung's singing voice.) and talks to me as I write the reviews and answers email.

The writer/owner of Che-Wee was the wife of a naturalist and they found him at their Vermont farm. He was lost and forlorn that winter he was born (natched), too little to fly, too young to know how to feed himself. Justin brought home a cat from his grandmother's who was too small to know how to drink milk, so I used a medicine dropper to feed Tosca at first. She lived nineteen years and was my shaman cat. I still miss her healing presence.

Che-Wee pretends to be able to read as he perches on the pen his author is using. He chirps and actually acts like he knows what she is writing. He has no cage but flies free throughout the New York apartment, and even ventures out onto the branches of trees outside the window. Thank goodness, no predator has grabbed him. He's something like the goldfinch, a lovely species of the fowl world. They have much 'charm' and are small but a delight to hear and amusing to watch. Their call has a unique tinkling quality. The male purple finch sings a cheery, rich song, marked by a few harsh notes as his song tumbles brightly down the musical scale. They have an overall "dipped in wine" look. These are intelligent birds.


Ms. Elswyth Thane wrote YOUNG MR. DISRAELI, ENGLAND WAS AN ISLAND ONCE, THE TUDOR WENCH which was turned into a play). Her fiction includes REMEMBER TODAY, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, HIS ELIZABETH and YANKEE STRANGER.