SELFLESS March 29, 2021 By ARTHUR H. GUNTHER III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com     When I came off the crest of the hill heading down Spring Valley’s Main Street at 1 a.m. Tuesday, March 23,  just 8 minutes after the alarm… Continue reading

March 15, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      No longer are there country lanes in this life, grateful though as one must be for having once traveled in the heady quiet of a summer night, windows… Continue reading

March 8, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com      Way back in my time, in my small village where a Saturday morning might begin with a long walk through town to an old schoolyard or a field… Continue reading

March 1, 2021 Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      America doesn’t smile as much these days. The virus. Jobs gone, debt, deficit, taxes, disappointing “leaders,” the greedy, less spirit, confused purpose, lost understanding of how, why the nation… Continue reading

February 22, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com      Don’t each oranges much any more, or tangerines, as the march of time has made the delectable juice the foe of my system. But once just the peeling… Continue reading

February 15, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      I recall a particularly down day way, way back when a combination of disappointment, inaction, frustration and inertia had me idling in neutral. Could not see the… Continue reading

February 8, 2021   ‘SNOW’/gunther Fresh snow as a washed face, clothes anew, day begins In opportunity not seen Before the storm. Continue reading

February 1, 2021  ‘AMERICAN PROMISE’/acrylic, gunther   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      This House, isolated in American vastness, no chimney seen, no doorknob, no curtains, yet it is a sturdy home, not abandoned, people within, green,… Continue reading

January 25, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      If I had a real conversation with Sara, who is in a room during this virus, as so many of us are, her face not seen though… Continue reading

January 18, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com) When you wrote your first letter, no matter how old you were, or sent away a quarter with three box tops to a cereal company to get a baking… Continue reading