Letter: A Tribute Given in Time

David Moss-Cornett shares a tribute to his mother, Sylvia Moss-Cornett, and reminds readers that sometimes the best gifts aren't purchased but created.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We are accustomed to writing tributes after someone has died. This piece offers another possibility: to speak our gratitude while the person we are honouring can still read it, hear it, and receive it.

Preface

We often wait.
We wait until someone is gone before we gather our words,
before we say what mattered,
before we name the ways a li…