#advent 2016

Advent Art Sale! Get the original of the one you loved the best. Make it your own. Love it forever.

Did you enjoy last month’s daily art? Want to take your favorite home with you? Peruse the whole month’s worth of art here. Prices are on the posts. All art is 5.5″x8.5″, or half of a US Letter size page, on archival white cardstock with embossed detailing. Email me and I’ll send you a Paypal invoice if the art’s still available. First come, first dibs! Yay art! First class letter post is free,…

Leonia Church December Events (2018 Advent Calendar)

This is a list of December events at Leonia Church. It is our “Advent Calendar!” Please mark your calendar with these important dates and events.

Decorate the Sanctuary Saturday, December 1 @ 9:30 a.m.

FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT Sunday, December 2

Tuesday Evening Small Group Advent Retreat Tuesday, December 4 @ 7 p.m. Sanctuary 

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This is the Leonia Church “Advent Calendar!” Please mark your calendar with these important dates and events.

Decorate the Sanctuary Saturday, December 2 @ 9:30 a.m.

Advent Retreat Saturday, December 2 @ 12:30 p.m. Sanctuary and Chapel

FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT Sunday, December 3

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Advent 2016, week 4

2016 is almost over! To celebrate the end of this terrible year, I drew one sketch every day. They’re in various media on cheap-but-archival 5.5″x8.5″ embossed white cards. Some of these will be available as cards, some of them will be in a special sale for my email list next month, and some of them are already spoken for. I had the flu and then a cold for most of December, so pardon some of the…

Advent 2016, week 3 - a little post-Christmas cheer to get us closer to 2017!

2016 is almost over! To celebrate the end of this terrible year, I’m doing one sketch every day. They’re in various media on these cheap-but-archival 5.5″x8.5″ embossed white cards. Some of these will be available as cards, some of them will be in a special sale for my email list next month, and some of them are already spoken for. I’ve had the flu and then a cold for most of December, so pardon…

And the finale! It’s a bit late I’m sorry but Christmas eve had been stressing and I didn’t like anything of what I wrote then so I have started all over again to make the angst a bit more prominent.

Merry DL-6Mas everyone!!!

Day 24 - Bulletproof

-It’s been, what, 15 years?

 -About that? Yes.

 -15 years is a long time to wait... You can’t imagine how much I’ve suffered...

 -You... suffered?

 -And now... the perfect opportunity presents itself. At last I shall have my revenge!

 -What!?

 -...Merry Christmas!

 BANG!

  There was only darkness. Pieces of memories. That sea, the boat, the gun he had carelessly taken into his hands after the shot was fired leaving his fingerprints all over it. The trial, that dork who forced himself upon him who had lost all hope, who wanted to defend him no matter how much he himself believed he deserved what had happened.

The nightmares of the past. An elevator, three people, two men arguing, a gunshot, a terrible scream. Then, darkness. One person dead. And it was his fault. He killed that man!

Back to the trial 15 years later. The dork defended him. And proved his innocence of that murder from the 24th of December 2016. But he was guilty... of that crime in the elevator. There had been no one else who could have killed Gregory Edgeworth besides him, the victim’s own son.

And then... relief. The dork managed somehow to present an unbelievable truth. It had not been him who had shot his dad but that monster who had raised him 15 years to form him into a perfect prosecutor who only cared about a perfect record. A perfect record which was destroyed by said dork who just proved his innocence in two murder cases. He couldn’t bear that humiliation and faked a suicide note to find a new way to live on after everything he had believed in for so long had been destroyed.

 And then he woke up; and looked into the grinning face of Larry Butz.

“Hey, Egdey! No time to sleep! Today’s your biggest day! I hope you have not forgotten!?”

 Edgeworth smiled a bit. How could he forget? It was time to leave the past rest, although he really asked himself why Wright had to decide for this to happen on such a terrible date. All the negativity of his life was connected to Christmas. And now he should get married on that same date.

 “Come on!” Larry chimed. “It’ll be a great day. My plans are bulletproof!”

 “They’re your plans... That can’t end well.” Miles sighed, got up, took a shower and then got dressed into a white tuxedo.

 Time rushed, he barely noticed anything from the words the Judge spoke. Just something of a long way and many hardships.

 And then Wright spoke.

“I know you wonder why I’ve chosen this day to marry you. You connect so many bad feelings with a date which is supposed to be a happy day. And this is the reason for my choice. I want you to have something happy to remember about this day as well. I want you to be happy.”

 Miles could feel tears pricking at the corners of his eyes.

 “Wright...” he whispered overwhelmed.

 “No... it’s not ‘Wright’ anymore.” Phoenix denied with a shy grin.

“I... I know. I just wanted to say it one last time, Mr Edgeworth!” Miles said happily.

 Both of them grinned and then they kissed. And all their friends cheered. Everyone had come to witness these two men get married. All those clients whose innocence Phoenix had proven and all friends they had met on their way. And the loudest were of course: Maya Fey, Trucy Wright, Dick Gumshoe Larry Butz and Kay Faraday.

Klapollo ans NaruMitsu go on a date

Day 23 - Date night

 Edgeworth looked at his watch. Until now the evening had been very nice and relaxing but he was not sure if a concert of a famous rockband was an ideal activity for a date night. Nevertheless he had agreed to the plan. He had already chosen the place for their dinner, a noble restaurant Klavier had been a bit sceptical about. But like this the two prosecutors found an acceptable compromise and luckily Apollo and Phoenix had agreed to these plans for their double date.

 Edgeworth didn’t quite remember how it happened that they planned something like this; it had to be during a Christmas party at the prosecutor’s office but somehow the four of them had started planning a night together with food and music.

The dinner had been enjoyable. Even for Klavier who would have preferred something less exquisite just because he knew Apollo was not used to such high end restaurants.

But everything went well and the four of them had a pleasant conversation.

And now they were standing at a concert hall, where the music was much too loud for Edgeworth’s taste. He could barely understand the texts over the loud drums and guitars and there were way too many people around him, invading his personal space, but when he looked at the two youngsters he smiled. They seemed to enjoy the show, so it was good to be here, although he didn’t like it too much. But then he looked at his own lover who had put pieces of tissue into his ears and also looked a bit out of place.

 He tapped Phoenix’s shoulder to get his attention, and then he pointed to the doors with a questioning expression.

 Phoenix nodded and together they left the crowd.

 “Let’s wait for them here”, Phoenix suggested when they entered the entrance hall and Miles nodded and went to buy them some over expensive drinks.

 “This is not your kind of music, right?” Phoenix said sipping on his grape juice and he remembered their excursion to the jazz club.

 Miles nodded. “But they enjoy it so much.” He stated and Phoenix agreed.

 “Yeah.”

 It took about an hour until the concert was over and soon after the younger couple met them.

 “Oh I thought you’d have left!” Apollo seemed to be a bit surprised.

 “No. It was just too loud for us. Do you want to have a drink somewhere to give this night a proper ending? I’ll pay.” Edgeworth proposed and Klavier and Apollo agreed.

 “So you are not this old-fashioned yet?” The teasing was clearly audible in Klavier’s voice.