No problem - slow paced replies are perfectly fine!

Well, sometimes I'm bit of a conservative, too =) When the mobile phones were booming, I refused to have one. I thought that I can do with a good old land-line phone, and when most of the people already had mobile phones I was still refusing to buy one... And same with facebook, it took me a long time to finally join. But when I did, at some point I was pleasantly surprised of exactly this same phenomenon: you never know if one of the posts is going to start a good conversation. Same here; just doing the daily picture as a daily routine, without spesifically waiting for any bigger user feedback - and then sometimes pictures spark comments and real conversation. That is good!

Yup, I think I pretty much agree with your reflections about comfort / freedom. I think the ideal would be to have a social group with a tradition which is not too limiting - a tradition which would pay more attention to accepting everyone as they are, supporting and lifting persons up. But all too often we have traditions with a lot of social pressure, fear and control to keep the individuals hard-working smooth members of the society...

Well, but all in all, this is a big topic and might be worth a blog entry or two - maybe in the winter to come =)