The black midwife who delivered my two sons (in 1980 and 1982) was a wealth of inspiring sayings. (Her name was Gladys Milton and she was recognized by the state of Florida (Women of Light, I think) for her service in delivering many, many babies in a long career in Walton County.

One of her sayings was, ‘The difficult, we’ll do right away. The impossible may take a little longer.’