and our planet. Many is the mother whose "reality" at the moment of crowning is, "I can't do this." But she does. Sometimes it is but an encouraging word, at others the touch of a finger to depress a lip of the cervix. There are many things in life that we deem not doable until they are done. Doubt not my Steely friend. With gentle guidance of history, this child, too, shall know the world. And the Wheel turns.