After an exhausting move from one house to another, followed by weather that defies description and not a single greeting card yet written, it is good to find myself in healing hands.
"You're 'pitta,' " declares Carol Miyazaki, requesting that I take out my earrings (it seems she intends to massage my ears as well as my face) and lie back in one of the most comfortable chairs ever.
According to Ayurvedic holistic medicine, we all fit one of three basic types: "vata" (ether and air), "kapha" (water and earth) and pitta (fire and water). Being the latter (and not pita bread, as first feared) turns out to be a mixed blessing, according to a constitutional analysis, but remarkably accurate all the same.