breathing

Author's name: Maryam Al Balushi

There are many secrets here, and a great effort made by the work team. In six years, I will tell you about my story with these pictures and these words, and all the beautiful harmony I experienced with all the names I mentioned and those I didn’t mention, in the journey of searching for the beauty of life and its philosophy. In the story of perception, I learned a lot and never realized that I needed, like others, to stop and “breathe”... and live life..!

In this book, I have 40 stories, 40 photographs, 37 photographers from 18 countries, that take you through different experiences: with God, with yourself, with family, and with life. The experience, with all its details and all its stages, taught me that if I want to leave an impact, I must work hard and go through all the difficulties of labor that prepare me to bring this child into the world. Here, I am truly liberated and no longer think about what I have written and presented.

Here I will reveal many secrets, as well as the tremendous effort made by the team, over the course of sixth year. I will tell you about my story through these photographs and words, and all the beautiful harmony that I have lived with, all the names that I mentioned and those that I omitted, in the journey of discovering the beauty of life and its philosophy, and in the story of perceiving.

You will discover in my book: 40 stories told via 40 photographs shot by 37 photographers from 18 various nations, each one describing a unique experience with ALLAH, yourself, your family, and life. Such an event, in all its intricacies and phases, showed me that if I wanted to leave a lasting impression, I needed to exhaust myself and endure all the labor hardships necessary to bring this newly born into this world. At this point, I'm free not to reflect on what I've reflected on through out the book