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  • A CONCKLIN LEGACY/ More than Family History

    October 7, 2023   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Family genealogy collections and books are cherished histories that connect the dots in ancestral lines and prove reference for future generations. We should know where we come from.… Continue reading

  • FORMATIVE TIMES

    October 2, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      If we are fortunate, and not all are, we are anchored by early, good memories that literally define life, provide confident reference to the past and offer reassurance with… Continue reading

  • ‘FORM’

    ‘HER’/gunther (acrylic on linen) September 24, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Form is the substance of life, whether it be our homes, places we visit, the food we eat, the beauty we admire and that which… Continue reading

  • IDLING

    ‘TWO WINDOWS’/gunther September 17, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In a day’s time, you can sit in a room in thought that is idling like your 1955 English Ford in neutral, the constant turn of the… Continue reading

  • MISSION UNDERSCORCED

    September 11, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is rhythm to our lives, and when it is seriously interrupted, the beat rarely returns to the same music.  And, so it was with September 11, 2001.   … Continue reading

  • THE AMERICAN WORKER

    Sept. 5, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther IIIthecolumnrule.com      This is crazy time in America in ways political, economic, health-wise, socially, though if you subscribe to the thought that things happen for a reason, maybe eventually we will learn… Continue reading

  • AWAITING SEASONAL ‘LOVE’ August 27, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A peach in season is like long-sought-after love that suddenly makes connection.  The heavens appear, but as in many a novel and short story, consumption does you in,… Continue reading

  • BERT HUGHES

        August 20, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com From time to time but never often enough, there come among us in a world of ego, greed, power, selfishness, those extraordinary individuals who give from the core of their… Continue reading

  • A PASSING FACE

    August 13, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There comes a day when you see a certain face, on a relative, friend or former acquaintance, and you realize time has passed, that age has added lines, that… Continue reading

  • TWO WASHINGTONS

    August 6, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – These are not the best of days for America’s capital and Capitol, indeed the seat of democracy worldwide. A thrice-indicted fellow who should never have been president, special… Continue reading