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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: DEPOSIT (03/11/21)
Life is a river. From mountain springs it begins its journey, dribbling forth, uniting with other rivulets, becoming a small but purposive thing, drawn to a distant and final resolution in its union with the sea. From such small, delicate beginnings it gains force, carving out from dust, then mud, to hardest rock, the channels through which it flows.

It tumbles over itself, a toddler in joyful, perpetual motion, exploring its new world with verve, feeding its banks with verdant life. then settles into a more graceful, tranquil pace, gaining power and momentum, widening and strengthening.

Sometimes it enters a turbulent phase. Adversity, grief, and loss are mighty boulders and steep declines, over which its life becomes a frenetic search for the stability of nothingness. Diving, crashing, throwing up white plumes of fear and anger, out of control, full of malignant fury, it threatens anyone in its path until with the application of the balm of time, it recomposes itself and flows again in serene majesty, with banks full of trees and herons and ospreys and towns and cities feeding from its bosom.

Now near its journey’s end the river can taste the salt of the ocean’s beckoning grace. It divides itself, bayous, estuaries, formed from the rich deposit of its alluvial accumulation, the wisdom of its well lived life, a legacy of fulfilled promises, a life that gives life to all it enriches. Into the vast ocean it empties itself to live again, in tides and waves and clouds and rain. Its life is over. Now it truly begins.
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Marlene Custer 
03/18/21
You certainly brought the River to life. A refreshing read.
Ruthie Alekseeva
03/19/21
Well written and poetic. I enjoyed it :)
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
03/21/21
You have such vivid descriptions. I also enjoyed the fresh take on the topic.
Patricia Turner 
03/21/21
I love your take on the topic. I also love rivers and streams. The way you personified the waters with personality traits. It seems to symbolize richly, a life well lived.
Linda Lawrence 
03/25/21
I was transported by this flowing river piece.