Painting/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III the columnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com   America’s Labor Day has morphed beyond the usual public time off — picnics and other respite — that recognizes workers. Now it is also 24 hours of heightened uncertainty. There… Continue reading

August 30, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com  ahgunther@yahoo.com      I have now over-saturated my ears in tribute to Charlie Watts, last week late of the Rolling Stones, who must be rockin’ Heaven. Don’t care for Mick Jagger’s… Continue reading

August 23, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com One of the qualifications of “progress” is that as new technology replaces the old, or brings it on in the first place, tried and true habits honed by trial, error,… Continue reading

  August 16, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com It may seem hilarious and even back-woodsy, but there was a moment, a long one, when at 2 a.m. in a diner, say Hogan’s in West Nyack, N.Y., when… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III  thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com If you could capture images of the past and store them as memory files that could be flashed on a computer screen, then I would show you what my bedroom in Hillcrest,… Continue reading

‘COLOR’/gunther 2021 August 2, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      In these colors – black, white, brown, red, yellow – there is humanity and inhumanity. We do not see clear colors, untouched by others – that… Continue reading

July 25, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com One recent day, I took a car ride with an intriguing woman (all are), and we had conversation. Never sure where those mutual talks lead, as I draw from a stream… Continue reading

photo/gunther   July 19, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com   Every home has its entrance, perhaps a front porch or steps or inside foyer. So it is with places, usually introduced by paths, then roads. In Rockland… Continue reading

July 12, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (ahgunther@yahoo.com)      Stare at a door long enough, and it will open by itself. No, this isn’t telekinesis, merely but sometimes profoundly, a memory trip.      We open and… Continue reading

Painting by gunther July 4, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      TAPPAN, N.Y. – “When in the course of human events” begins the document crafted for July 4, 1776, a federal holiday now recognized as Independence… Continue reading