Vicissitudes Weekly
“Love is all there is.”
Kim Green’s Morgan from Vicissitudes
It has been a tragic week for America. It has been a week that proves that we are a country gagged by hatred and division. And it all came to life in a heinous display of political theater that has left most of us feeling lost and helpless.
In this fragile time that is painfully regressive but so delightfully transformative at the same time, humanity has reached a critical crossroads. Should we, in our metamorphosis, go back into the dark or trudge forward to the light. The events in Washington, DC illustrate that there are too many people who are stuck in a backwards mode that pulls them further away from light and love.
As delusionists march around defending a fantasy, they are denying the love within. So many of these irrational human beings want to destroy everything in their path that acknowledges the need to widen the circle of love. As they charged the Capitol, wreaking havoc; murdering a police officer, trampling the innocent and defiling our sacred temple of Democracy, they had abandoned their own capacity to love.
What have we come to?
Vicissitudes is an American story where the protagonist, Morgan Franklin, has temporarily forgotten love, as well. She is a woman bruised emotionally, physically and psychologically, symbolizing the fear that plagues too many of us, and, far too often, women of color. But there is one significant difference between Morgan and the loveless mob that attacked America; Morgan moves through her fears and regrets, searching for answers in order to find her truth. She makes the bold and unlikely choice to love again when she meets Jahn Booth, a man with a mysterious past, to whom she is wildly attracted.
Like so many of us, Jahn is a person in transition. He, too, has chosen to avoid love, at all costs. Equally tormented by past emotional and physical pain, his interest is sparked when he sees Morgan. That’s the moment when he discovers love and is ready to risk everything to be whole. These characters both experience a pivotal change of heart, despite their past, which speaks to the transformative power of love.
Morgan and Jahn symbolize the hope and possibility that love engenders. They show us through their honesty with each other and themselves, that love is truly all there is. Even when it doesn’t seem reasonable or feasible, love is what we must stand on. It dwells within us, around us and is in everyone we encounter. The only thing that stands in the way of love is the stubborn fear that resists vulnerability and eclipses truth.
On the face of it, Vicissitudes has little to do with the debacle that occurred last week in DC. But looking deeper, it’s got everything to do with the current American tragedy. Truth is, the whole thing, at its core, is about love and lack thereof. Love is the crux of our existence.
Vicissitudes dares to ask readers to see love in unexpected places, to dare to love with no conditions. It asks us if we can stand alone in our humanity and bask in the light.
And as Congress grapples with the many questions left in the wake of Sept. 6, 2021, I say to you that after they have tried everything else, they must go back to the source which means finding the love.
Love transforms,
KG
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