Recognize opportunities-

“somethings only come around once.”

Don’t bank on luck alone.

Greta Gerwig, who conceived and directed the buzzy live-action film Barbie and might we add highest grossing movie directed by a woman, told The New York Times that she hoped watching the movie would be a quasi-spiritual activity for its viewers.

Run on sentence counters that was a doozy.

The feeling she wanted to achieve, she said, is the same one she felt as a child when she was a guest at the Shabbat dinners of close family friends who were observant Jews.

“I remember feeling the sense of,

“Whatever your wins and losses were for the week, whatever you did or you didn’t do, when you come to this table, your

value has nothing to do with that.” Make it an embellish your virtues and disregard disappointments kind of weekend. Shabbat Shalom.