Moon tide voyage

"Full Moon tide," #watercolor card,  5 x 7

The moon pulls tides more than on the oceans, perhaps as powerful, but in different ways. Living organisms, including humans, react to its power, its presence, scientifically and emotionally.
I do, especially the full moon, from deep memories, some not even conscious. The moon always beckons, beckons to travel physically and especially mentally. If you type in "moon" on this blog search post, you'll see the multitude of writings, and some art, through the almost 10 years the blog has existed.
Most art, and writing, and music about the moon reflect (that's the appropriate word)  its power and influence romantically, wistfully, and even scientifically, there is more metaphor and symbol to consider.
In this season of materialism and social unrest, the words of the great Catholic seer and monk Thomas Merton, written in the 1960s as mankind reached for the moon, also uncannily fit our times.
   "What can we gain by sailing if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous."
   --Thomas Merton, "The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century"