^ _ /%\^ TflMl'lf^ ^ L J • THE WISDOM OF PELICANS A] % Also DonaldMcCullough Waking from the American Dream GrowingThrough YourDisappointments Finding Happiness in the MostUnhkelyPlaces Mastering Personal Growth (coauthor) The Trivialization ofGod TheDangerousIllusionofaManageableDeitg SayPlease, Say Thank You TheRespect WeOweOneAnother Donald McCullough WISDOM THE A searchforhealing at the water's edge VIKING COMPASS PELICANS OF VIKINGCOMPASS PublishedbythePenguinGroup PenguinPutnamInc.,375HudsonStreet, NewYork,NewYork10014,U.S.A. PenguinBooksLtd,80Strand,LondonWC2RORL,England PenguinBooksAustraliaLtd,250CamberwellRoad,Camberwell, Victoria3124,Australia PenguinBooksCanadaLtd, 10AlcornAvenue, Toronto,Ontario,CanadaM4V3B2 PenguinBooks(N.Z.)Ltd,CnrRosedaleandAirborneRoads,Albany, Auckland,NewZealand PenguinBooksLtd,RegisteredOffices: Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England Firstpublishedin2002byVikingCompass,amemberofPenguinPutnamInc. 987654321 10 Cop)night®DonaldW.McCuUough,2002 Allrightsreserved IllustrationsbyTomLeedy.ReproducedbyarrangementwithTomLeedy. CIPdataavailable ISBN0-670-03103-8 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica SetinEspritBook DesignedbyFrancescaBelanger Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove,nopart ofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinorintroducedinto aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans (electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise), withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofboththecopyright ownerandtheabovepublisherofthisbook.