Hiatus

It seems my blog has been on hiatus since this past May.  It wasn't intentional, many times I thought to sit down and write a post.  But my initial disconnection, which was actually before May 2012, had to do with a complete computer overhaul.  It's taken me a time to get thoroughly up to speed on the new and improved computer--not there yet actually.  I find I actually spend more time on my iPhone, and blogging on the iPhone I find to be cumbersome.  Maybe sometimes its a matter of having been on my computer all day at work and so when I get home I'm not real inclined to sit down to a desktop for a few more hours.  I don't even work at home all that much--I find it easier to be at work where I have my work phone and everything in reach, as well as there being complications I haven't bothered to puzzle out on accessing my work J drive from home.  Have not taken the time to hash it out with our I.T. person.
Its not like nothing is happening.  I just seem to be living over on facebook these days is all.  But I do miss blogging. Something satisfying about exploring a concept in essay format.    
It seems like cleaning house has been on hiatus as well.  I did do an amazing amount of cleaning on the day after Thanksgiving, infamously known as Black Friday for all the shopping that goes on, in theory putting businesses "in the black" for the year. Well, this Black Friday I didn't spend any money, didn't shop on line, didn't spend so much as a cent, didn't even move my car, except to make space for my nephews, who came over for a bounteous feast.  Maybe we can add unnecessary  shopping   to the list of hiatusi (or whatever the plural of hiatus is). 
But back to cleaning house.  It isn't something I enjoy very much, which is why I don't tend to find time for it in my moderately busy schedule.  But somehow the effort I put out day before yesterday was deeply satisfying.  I feel calm and in control. There's a lot more cleaning left to be done, that's for sure, but I didn't end the day  feeling like there was more I "should" have done. 
There's something delightfully counter cultural about cleaning house and blogging while the rest of the world is out shopping.  I took the month of November this year as an addition to the season of Advent, a friend helped me discover there is a liturgical season that we Episcopalians essentially ignore called "Kingdomtide".  It celebrates the Kingship of Christ and concludes today, on Christ the King Sunday.  Presbyterians and Methodists start it on Sept 1, but I started it on Nov 1, all Saint's Day.  It was a sort of running start, a chance to get started on spiritual disciplines for the season of Advent, and, yes, to change the focus over from material things as king to Christ as King.  So far, it's working.  This November has been much easier than most of the many past Novembers of my life.  I haven't done so well in being consistent with the spiritual disciplines...but if the intention to pray is to pray, then maybe the intention to keep up spiritual disciplines is to live a spiritually disciplined life  (well, it sounds good anyway!).    
And so we'll see where the hiatusi will end and begin.  I'd like to keep shopping on hiatus a long as I can, maybe do housework in bits and pieces, and watch blogging make a come back.  We'll see how this is working in a few weeks.