Life is funny. It invites laughter — sometimes in mysterious ways.
The story to follow that introductory remark will feature three characters: a priest, a comedian and an ostrich. More accurately, as regards the latter, an ostrich researcher, Yasuhiro Tsukamoto — whose business card shows not his own face but an ostrich’s. Some researchers identify with the object of their research to that degree.
The chosen three are among several contributors to a series of articles in this month’s PHP magazine titled “The secret to a day’s happiness.” Happiness, this implies, is to be taken one day at a time — following, as often as not, a radical break with the past.