Hey, Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of Five Minute Friday.

It's kind of crazy that we are approaching the end of a year, to say the least.

A year that went entirely like none of us had envisioned, but certainly had,

I think, it's fair share of positives in addition to God, everything that's just been going on.

I do want to take a moment to say that I really am wishing just health and good

things to all of you that are listening to this. I know that right now we're all kind of going

through it. Having been in New York for the majority of this pandemic here in this apartment by

myself, I know that it's scary. I saw and lived through, like many of you,

some really intense times here back in March and April. And I know that a lot of the rest of the

country outside of my bubble is going through some of that in their own way right now. So my

thoughts and my prayers to all of you as you listen to this,

I want to send you always just my best, my best vibes. Anyway, this episode, Five Minute Friday,

thanks for listening. This week, I want to tell you a story about my early days living in New York,

and this was prompted by a bike ride that I was on. I've mentioned

on the show before that every Tuesday I usually go and run at a track in Manhattan and then

bike on over to one of my favorite coffee shops. And this week in particular, I kind of mixed

up my bike route only because of the traffic pattern

at the time and ended up biking down a street that I used to go to a lot when I was a newer

New Yorker. And this street just happens to be Essex Street. And on Essex Street is a restaurant

called Beauty in Essex.

And, okay, I'll tell you why Beauty and Essex has some meaning to me.

So it's interesting.

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