November 10, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Morning is such a delicious thing – at times. Worries that kept you tossing at night seem washed from stinging emotion; birds sing; a cool breeze wafts in the slice of… Continue reading

November 3, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In rural Rockland County, N.Y., my 1940s-’50s time, absent video games, smart phones, even TV early-on, when summer came, or the first frost-free days of spring, the brisk ones of autumn… Continue reading

October 27, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If a picture is worth at least a thousand words, then today in all humility, I intend my painting, “Light Floating From Table,” as such. It is perhaps a surrealist view,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There can be no autumn, no falling leaves of color without summer. The great beauty so many look forward to as trees follow their nature is a goodbye-until-we-meet-again moment, with the promise of greenery… Continue reading

October 13, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You walk into a room, see someone and instinctively ask “How are you?” “Fine,” the gal/fellow answers. “You?” “OK,” you say. The conversation, which is not that at all but an… Continue reading

October 6, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There is a new book for all seasons titled “The Olden Days: My Mother’s Family History 1594-1997,” written by Beverly Schultz Csordas, ancestor of Nicholas Concklin, the fellow who began his… Continue reading

September 29, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If I were in Germany or old Prussia today, land of the Gunther side of my ancestors, and it was between 2-5 p.m., especially on a Sunday, I would sit down… Continue reading

September 22, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Once upon a time, nine times, Goofy the cross-eyed cat stumbled upon my mystery: Why don’t humans purr? He suggested that we verticals do have capable voice boxes but surrounding muscles… Continue reading

September 15, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Open doors are an often theme in art – paintings and photography. For the photo, the lens person’s eye has caught a moment that others might not immediately see but later… Continue reading

September 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The “forgotten” is the usual theme in this essay space – the ordinary gal or fellow, the backbone of our republic, the ones who largely work blue-collar, and in a look… Continue reading