Author's Note:
Erosion is a process of geological denudation, which involves the breakdown and transport of rock materials. Two other kinds of denudation often work ahead of erosion: weathering, the fragmenting of rock by physical, chemical and biological means; and mass wasting, wherein gravity begins pulling the rubble of weathering from its source. Erosion moves this material more substantially, often across long distances, via agents such as running water, glaciers and wind.
Deposition
is the “yin” to erosion’s “yang.” At some point, an agent of erosion
drops part or all of its load of rocks and sediments. Such depositions
occur, for example, when a river loses some of its carrying power, as
when its gradient or discharge diminishes. Glacial deposits might mark
the site where the great ice body began retreating or where winds
carried and distributed glacial sediment well away from the snout of the
glacier.
https://sciencing.com/difference-between-erosion-deposition-8673914.html
If I had a chart of deposition and erosion for my life it would look like this:
Mostly deposition throughout my childhood.
Erosion at age 9 when my Grandma-Great Carver died.
Deposition most of my teenage years.
Erosion when I was 19 losing a close friend and watching my brother figure out who he was.
So much tension that summer.
So much silence.
So many tears.
Deposition the rest of college.
College basketball scoring 1000 points.
Friendships for life.
Finding my first job.
Erosion losing it.
In college, no one ever tells you later in life you can lose a job.
Deposition finding a new one.
Traveling the US.
Traveling the world.
Meeting new friends.
Age 35, quite a summit.
Erosion at 36.
A small highlight of NY deposition.
Then the rest of 36 and 37, erosion.
A dark, perilous landslide.
Then finally healing.
Glacier, you were deposition.
You will always be my favorite place.
38 through now?
Nothing but a gradual climb to the mountaintop again.
Nothing but up and up.
So many good things now.
So much myself again.
From here, I can see where I've been--and to where I never want to return.
From here, I can see where I want to go.
The beauty, the magic of the human spirit, like nature, is that what breaks us can later save us.
But I hope I never falter again.
https://sciencing.com/difference-between-erosion-deposition-8673914.html
Deposition and Erosion
Mostly deposition throughout my childhood.
Erosion at age 9 when my Grandma-Great Carver died.
Deposition most of my teenage years.
Erosion when I was 19 losing a close friend and watching my brother figure out who he was.
So much tension that summer.
So much silence.
So many tears.
Deposition the rest of college.
College basketball scoring 1000 points.
Friendships for life.
Finding my first job.
Erosion losing it.
In college, no one ever tells you later in life you can lose a job.
Deposition finding a new one.
Traveling the US.
Traveling the world.
Meeting new friends.
Age 35, quite a summit.
Erosion at 36.
A small highlight of NY deposition.
Then the rest of 36 and 37, erosion.
A dark, perilous landslide.
Then finally healing.
Glacier, you were deposition.
You will always be my favorite place.
38 through now?
Nothing but a gradual climb to the mountaintop again.
Nothing but up and up.
So many good things now.
So much myself again.
From here, I can see where I've been--and to where I never want to return.
From here, I can see where I want to go.
The beauty, the magic of the human spirit, like nature, is that what breaks us can later save us.
But I hope I never falter again.
