Saving Septic Cyril: The Illegal Gardener Part II

by Sara Alexi

Saabira would like to lose herself too but a part of her is alert, the invisible cord from her heart to her sleeping daughter an ever present safety net.

The present can be shut off, but it is the past that he struggles with.

No matter what the weather out on the moors, he is free, away from people, just him and the dogs and the wonder and power of nature, and the world seems beautiful.

‘My dream is that we find our lives here so fulfilling that we do not miss home. Then Jay will grow up speaking English with no accent and she will be highly educated.’

it had stimulated her to want to learn more. It needn’t be English Literature again – it could be something else, anything, everything. It is the process of studying that is so engrossing, so satisfying.

‘We are run by emotion. The only trouble is we sometimes think the things we do are helping us when in fact they are not.’

That’s the thing about throwing stuff away. You never know if you might need it the next day.

The past cannot be changed, but we can turn negative experience to positive by the way we handle them in the present and how we let them affect our future.’

Who was it that said, “It only takes the good to do nothing for evil to prevail.”’ She smiles. ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Cyril corrects her,

‘The only thing there is to heal – hurt. She’d been hurt by her mother, her father, her ex-husband – lots of little side stories along the way. A lifetime of being kicked.’ ‘That is what Cyril is healing from – a lifetime of being kicked.’