Class, I started off, today’s precept is: “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are no footprints on the moon”. I then waited as I always do after I read the precept. Their job is to talk about its meaning. There are no right or wrongs. Just conversation.

Madison who sits in the front and is often fumbling with her papers and trying to avoid lifting her voice first, spoke back almost immediately.

But Ms. Hurley, it’s all apart of God’s work!

Well, look at you getting all spiritual and philosophical! Explain please.

This lead to a conversation about where dreams come from and how connected we are to the universe.

At the end I asked them, so, is the sky the limit?

Well, yes. It is the responded.

Then we have to look past the moon when discussing our dreams in the fourth grade.