Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the BirdsCHESTER, Chris. Providence of a sparrow; lessons from a life gone to the birds. Random House, Anchor. 289p. c2002. 1-4000-3385-3. $13.05. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. Everyone knows someone who has become so attached to an animal that their bond negates the usual separation between species. Rarely, however, is a bond as strong as that between Chris Chester Christopher Sean Chester (born January 12, 1983) is an American football offensive guard for the Baltimore Ravens. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma. and his friend B, a house sparrow house sparrow: see English sparrow. house sparrow or English sparrow One of the world's best-known and most abundant small birds (Passer domesticus, family Passeridae or Ploceidae). he rescued when B fell out of his nest as a baby. Chester and his wife handfed him and slowly B (short for BB, which stands for Birdbrain bird·brain n. Slang A person regarded as silly or stupid. bird  brained ) became Chester's best friend. For ten years, B had his own room in the Chester home, which he shared with a variety of finches and an occasional visiting canary and outside human. He and Chester became so close that B could sense his moods, would play fetch, and developed dislikes for certain people and colors. They developed their own personal language, borrowing from human and sparrow sounds. Chester's observations and wry sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"sense of humour, humor, humour makes this more than a love story, though at its heart, it is just that. Nola Theiss, Sanibel, FL |
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