July 13, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In this strange time of human behavior, seemingly numbed from reality, you can always look to animals and other beings such as birds, reptiles, etc. As with vertical people like you… Continue reading

July 6, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com It’s the little things that anchor, especially in this fakakta world, and since I am using the descriptive Yiddish work for messed up, I will bend to the wisdom of my… Continue reading

On our Independence Day: A Declaration by those who refuse to see the American Experiment ending in autocracy and fascism: “We, true humanity born of the diversity that has long continued to build this Nation from its imperfect posture, declare… Continue reading

June 29, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Sometimes there is the unexpected. You are in the quiet, no one talking to you though people are about. And that’s OK, because we all need space; it’s good for you.… Continue reading

June 22, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When I was young, just a few years after the double-digit years began, I referred to a slice of toast as “toast bread,” incorrect but that is what my father said,… Continue reading

June 15, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com It is Father’s Day, and many of us fortunate to be one cannot fully comprehend. Were we ever worthy? Personally, I think of this time as tribute to my own father.… Continue reading

In March 1954, principled journalist Edward R. Murrow offered this hitting commentary on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who sought to shake the foundations of the American Experiment. Read it and see just how apt it is to the present assault on… Continue reading

June 8, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You can plant “seeds” wherever you walk. Well, not literally, just in coin of the realm. These days when I meander, no matter where that is, and if I have change… Continue reading

June 6, 2025 So many of the young men who gave their lives on Omaha Beach this day in 1944 were farm boys who had never seen an ocean, who just short months before were hauling hay in their early… Continue reading

June 1, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com “Minimalism” in art and other design is roughly “less is more” though it gets complicated over exactly what those words mean. For simplicity’s sake, there is calmness, even purity in what… Continue reading