I want to talk about bathing with a friend. And, no, this doesn’t mean librarians will have to black out my column again this week. The co-bathing of which I speak is as pure as falling rain – old-fashioned rain, without all the modern additives.

My communal bathing is the stuff of magical preventive health – and even disease healing. It is dubbed forest bathing, though it’s technically called Shinrin-yoku Forest Therapy.