Blue WaterNEARLY TWO DECADES AFTER a young-onset Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Peter Hunt discovers more to smile about every day as he searches for meaning in life's daily routine. According to Hunt, happiness is a choice, a coping tool to help humankind deal with pain and discomfort. He contends that when considered with an open heart and leveraged with the genuine kindness of helping others, even partial meaning can unlock a divine joy of presence that overshadows most human suffering. Using this recipe for living, Hunt uncovers fragments of meaning in the most unusual-and often amusing-places. Insightful and inspiring, Blue Water's 100 vignettes illustrate how great life can be, not despite or because of suffering, but in nature's reassuring acknowledgment of pain as essential to humanity.PraiseIt takes humility, courage, perseverance and an exceptionally strong spirit to transform suffering into something meaningful, fulfilling and even advantageous in life. -From the Foreword by Mike McCastleLife's challenges often lead us to self-pity and negativity. I met Pete Hunt long ago in the unforgiving and often stressful realm of naval aviation. Nothing I encountered through 34 years in that world begins to compare with Pete's everyday life in his now decades-long fight with Parkinson's disease. His determination to embrace joy, despite a steadily worsening condition, is genuinely inspiring, as is evidenced in these seemingly unrelated stories. As you read Blue Water, you'll see he's actually stitched together for us the small windows of clarity that help him make sense of and ultimately cope with his reality. -Joe Kuzmick, Rear Admiral, USN (retired). Currently, Joe Kuzmick chairs peer advisory boards for Seattle area CEOs and senior executives with Vistage Worldwide, the world's leading executive membership organization.About the AuthorPETER HUNT was born in New York and spent six years of his childhood in Athens, Greece. During college summers, Hunt participated in five diving expeditions to the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, the Andrea Doria, before graduating from Brown University in 1985 and joining the U.S. Navy. As an A-6 Intruder attack pilot, Hunt completed three deployments during ten years of active duty, including 45 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. After leaving the Navy, Hunt flew for United Airlines until a 2005 Parkinson's diagnosis at age 43. Peter Hunt is married with two adult children and one grandchild, holds a University of Washington master's degree, and is the author of Angles of Attack, Setting the Hook, The Lost Intruder, and Beyond Identity.
