Erosion

The stream that runs down the valley and into Aberfforest bay normally flows lazily on to the shingle beach culminating in a glassy pool, as in this blip taken in August 2019.

Full to bursting after the recent heavy rainfall the stream's in no mood to dawdle now and instead is taking the quickest route to discharge itself into the sea. I was  alarmed to see that it had undercut the wall that holds up the bank and  the coast path that runs along  the top of it. The wall could collapse if this continues. And it will. The extent of coastal erosion caused by Storm Babet is equivalent to what might have been expected  to take five years is a statistic I've seen mentioned. It's happening all the time of course, just faster than we anticipated.

https://theconversation.com/can-the-uks-crumbling-coasts-be-saved-from-erosion-175508


I also started thinking about erosion in a figurative sense. The gradual, constant,  inexorable,  catastrophic, wearing away of hope. What, if anything, will be left in the end. Will there even be an end?
I'm sure you all know to what I am referring.