Hey, hurdlers. Welcome back to another installment of five minute Friday from hurdle.. Emily Abadi here. I just want to say

thank you so much for everyone this week. Your awesome feedback on the Lowe Bosworth episode as well

as the new release of the weekly hurdle. Hurdle's newsletter. It has been so rewarding and exciting and I'm just so

amped to continually connect with you. If you like what you are hearing, please make some time

to head on in to the iTunes store and rate and review hurdle. For those of you that may be new

to the pod, Five Minute Friday is when I share a story

with you, offer up to prompt to take you in to the weekend and then share some of my content

picks of the week, some highlights of the week, some cool stuff that's going on, and links

to all of these things can be found in the description to this episode. So this week,

I am sharing a really special story with you prompted by the sad news that this year in

Connecticut overnight summer camps will not be permitted to open. Now, I totally understand the safety

reasoning behind it. I get it. But still, as someone that went to summer camp for 15 total years

as a camper and a counselor, man, that was a hard pill to swallow. As always, if you like what you're

listening here, please make sure to reach out over Instagram, over Twitter, over Facebook,

at Emily Abadi, and at Hurtle Podcast. Now, I have always been a visual sort of person,

and perhaps that's why I love writing and

reading so much. Back in college, I was the kind of student who just had to rewrite literally

absolutely everything in our college textbooks onto small-lined index cards prior to an exam

in order to truly learn the material.

Now, these days, I have a vision board at my desk and a zillion post-its around the apartment,

filled with everything from positive affirmations and reminders to Italian phrases as my

never-ending quest to learn a third language continues, which is why in true Emily fashion, I purchased a pair

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