Author Archives: Werner Stadler

A Good Story

If you could script your own story, what would it look like?  Your perfect life, written as a novel, any way you please.  Would you be rich? Famous? In peak condition and with time to spare?
According to popular belief our time here consists primarily of random experiences, chaotically strung together.  Sorry, I don’t buy [...]

How the Light gets in

I’m willing to bet you require some Light today, whether it be a broad beam illuminating the way or just enough to find the door out of the dark room where you have been developing your negatives.  Many times it is a small gap in the heavy drapes or the flicker of a candle which [...]

Oops…

It seems that y’all received a strangely formatted Lightseeker mail yesterday?  Thanks to those who pointed this out – where would I be without you guys
If you would like to read the post and comment, please view it here:
http://www.lightseeker.co.za/thanks-it-will-be-ok/
Looking forward to connecting,
WS

Thanks, it will be OK

Just a quick note of thanks to those who inquired about the lengthy radio silence.  Your words of encouragement are a treasure to me.  I have been very careful to keep Lightseeker a discussion area for all of us rather than a personal blog, and hence opted to temporarily suspend the weekly posts whilst I [...]

Like kids again

The friendly summer raindrops left criss-cross trails down her mom’s sowing room window.  It was late December in the mid 1970’s and only a few days before she had to start ‘big’ school.  Dad had just finished mowing the lawn before the weather came in.  Clad in his ‘huisbroek’ and garden shoes she watched through [...]