Three-Bean Sauté

There were many occasions during my life and travels in the Pacific that I almost pinched myself to remind me that these sojourns in paradise were reality. One magical day comes immediately, almost unbidden, to my memory: Awakening before dawn in response to some subconscious signal, I glanced around the strange room in that post-dream dislocation that affects the mind when crossing too many time zones and political boundaries without allowing your circadian rhythms to adjust. I said out lo