to be part of the joy. You ordered something from a catalog and waited weeks for it to arrive, checking the mailbox every day with genuine excitement. You saved up allowance for months for a toy or record you’d seen in a store window. You waited all week for your favorite television show to air at its scheduled time — no pausing, no rewinding, no watching whenever you felt like it.
That waiting taught patience in a way that’s harder to learn today. It made the arrival of something feel like
