{"id":7073144,"date":"2026-10-02T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7073144"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:08:17","slug":"the-value-of-commenting-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7073144","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Commenting \u2013 Disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This will appear in the October 1, 2026, edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/juntoletter.disquiet.com\">weekly project instruction announcement email<\/a> for the Disquiet Junto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope this note finds you well. There are still three full months left in the year, or just under by a few hours by the time you receive this, and yet that proximity can make the year feel almost over: when the end is in view.<\/p>\n<p>I am not one to rush time, quite the contrary, and as someone with a tendency to listen to slow, enveloping music, the inclination grows stronger as the days shorten. At the same time, I am excited about the end of 2026, because the first week of 2027 will mark the 15th anniversary of the Disquiet Junto \u2014 and the year will mark the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin\u2019s original Junto, which of course inspired our own.<\/p>\n<p>While I have you, I want to encourage everyone involved in the Disquiet Junto to, to the extent they\u2019ve comfortable doing so, comment on each other\u2019s work each week. The reason I don\u2019t, myself, do so very often is simple: I have, for the nearly 15 straight years of weekly Junto projects, taken quite seriously John Cage\u2019s concept of removing oneself from a process after setting it up. A strong impulse in that regard is that I wouldn\u2019t want to be seen as playing favorites. But that\u2019s specifially me as the founder and moderator of the Junto. For everyone else involved, everyone participating in a given week\u2019s project, commenting is very important, because it provides resources for mutual self-improvement, which was the foundational concept of the original Junto, way back in 1727. Now, I don\u2019t want to nor would I ever require commenting, because from the start, the Junto has been about the music first and foremost. The Junto is intended as a place where people communicate with each other through music by (1) working through the same concepts at the same time, and (2) then listening to how other people approached the same conceptual undertaking. That said, if you are up for commenting, please do. Communication \u2014 musical, verbal \u2014 is the life blood of a community.<\/p>\n<p>And that covers it. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity. It means the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will appear in the October 1, 2026, edition of the weekly project instruction announcement email for the Disquiet Junto. I hope this note finds you well. 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