Do you own what you post on fluther?

I don’t. I sort of want to own my words, but I don’t feel like that’s a good desire. I think that once the words are out there, they no longer belong to me, or anyone (although they might belong to fluther). This is ok for me, because it’s like an improvisational dance. Me and the questions. Me and the people here. We make a move, and it’s over with. Gone. There is nothing except the next move. You can’t replay a dance (unless you videotape it, but usually only professionals get taped).

I play improvisational music that hardly ever gets recorded. Sometimes the music is absolutely incredible, but there’s no recording. It’s gone. If you were there in the moment, you could appreciate it. Otherwise, you missed it.

So that’s how I feel about fluther writing, too. It loses it’s relevance within a day or maybe a week. The people who see it in real time see it, and everyone else misses it. It’s gone like the sound that the tree in the forest makes—or doesn’t make. No one is around to hear it any more.