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  • ‘HISTORY’

      December 7, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com   Just a few words here. After posting a recent painting without text except for the title “HISTORY,” on various internet sites, I was asked to provide a… Continue reading

  • ONCE THE QUIET MORNING

    November 29, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com We all have our time and mood anchors, those moments of memory that moor us in the ordinary as well as during the storms that hit our lives. Stress… Continue reading

  • ‘DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER’

    November 23, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III (contact/comment: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      “Gimme rewrite!”      Once, there was a “Front Page” in every community, newspapers and characters straight out of the famous 1928 play/movie by Charles MacArthur and Ben… Continue reading

  • ‘IS A PAINTING EVER FINISHED?’

    By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Many painters don’t title their works or provide only cryptic ones, perhaps  because they do not know what the pieces say, preferring that their “language” speak for itself. Maybe even tell the… Continue reading

  • JOE, KAMALA ARE IN; NOW THE PEOPLE

    November 10, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Joe is in, so is Kamala. Next, it’s gotta be the people.      Kamala Harris cannot have her office in Washington, where the K-Street lobbyists and other special… Continue reading

  • THE GATHERING OF DECENCY

          November 2, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      It should be un-American to hate, to be a bigot, to let fear and want from loss of job and community change to bully others from… Continue reading

  • HUMILITY AND SERVICE

    Hugh Bonner’s funeral, St. Patrick’s Day, 1908, NYC October 26, 2020   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      I am partly of Bonner heritage, Irish through my grandmother Mary and also Scot as the family was Bonnar there… Continue reading

  • SYNCHRONICITY

    October 19, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In another century, it seems, there were conversations about everything yet nothing of great import. Those two were not going to solve the world’s problems nor were they going… Continue reading

  • THE ROAD

    October 12, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is a road on the South Mountain, a winding, hilly journey that has long defined the lives of farmers and artists. It is the plan of the gods… Continue reading

  • CURIOSITY

      October 5, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Curiosity, we are warned, killed the cat, but the naysayers never tell you about the nine lives. Curiosity was a welcome trait for Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, who thought out… Continue reading