In a world engineered to erase the wait, Art Sterling makes the case for patience. From a Stanford nursery school to the spires of a six-hundred-year-old cathedral, from the giant sequoias of California to whales returning to seas we nearly emptied, this Sterling Special is a meditation on the things that refuse to be rushed. The harvest still in the dirt. The child not yet grown. The healing that takes longer than we were promised. A reminder that the things worth having keep their own time, and always have.

Featuring the research of Dr. Gloria Mark on human attention, the famous marshmallow test of psychologist Walter Mischel, and the quiet arithmetic of nature’s comebacks.