Appreciation has an expiration date. Share it before it’s a thing you wish you’d done.

Good opinions about people tend to stay unspoken. You think the thing, you assume a natural moment will come, and the moment keeps not arriving until circumstances close it off altogether. Words do not get more valuable for being held, they only get harder to deliver.

Say one of them today, plainly and without building up to it. Tell someone what they did well, or what they have been for you over the last year. Awkward and said beats graceful and never.