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  • WOMEN AND VOICE

    ‘VOICE’/gunther   June 3, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      In this time of overdue recognition of women, the root of all existence really, the essential nurturer, the balancer, the multi-tasker, the comforter, the… Continue reading

  • THE PROTECTED HOUSE

    ‘HOUSE IN FIELD’/gunther May 27, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      There is no driveway to our childhood home, immersed as it is in dreams and fantasies and those anchor memories which help keep… Continue reading

  • ‘BLENDED’

    ‘BLENDED’/acrylic/gunther May 20, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III the column rule (also on Facebook)   Individualism builds the world as the genius within the person — the particular moxie — moves at its own speed and direction. Yet there… Continue reading

  • TURNING A CORNER

    ‘ABSTRACT CORNER’/gunther May 13, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      We all turn a corner somewhere, perhaps every day, maybe in a month, or just once a year. Maybe only in a lifetime.   … Continue reading

  • BEFORE SEVEN A.M.

    ‘Seven A.M./gunther May 6, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      UPPER NYACK, N.Y. — On the charming corner of School Street and Broadway, in this charming village 24 miles north of Gotham, there is… Continue reading

  • OF TREES, OF HOUSES, OF PEOPLE

    ‘TALL HOUSES’/gunther April 29, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      In dense forests, trees grow tall in competition for light. Yet each stands straight and proud, keeping the species together. Though the single tree… Continue reading

  • WORLD OF HUES

      WORLD OF HUES/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)   There’s this thing about color — it’s supposed to be this or that, according to scene. You know, bright blue sky, white sun, green mountains, straw… Continue reading

  • ROOM OF HER OWN

      April 15, 2019 (in advance) ‘HER ROOM’/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III (also on Facebook)      There can never be full existence for any of us if we do not have our space. It is even truer if… Continue reading

  • BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

    ‘VERSO,’ gunther April 8, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      Perhaps this column should have been written for April Fool’s Day because the accompanying painting seems a joke. But it is not.     … Continue reading

  • HOOKED ON ‘THE HOOK’

    GUNTHER/photo   April 1, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      There is a literal “hook” to the Hudson River shore just 25 miles north of New York City. It is Hook Mountain, its high… Continue reading