Love and other Mysteries are poems of longing and of seeking from the perspective of a woman in midlife. They are poems of Thank you and I wish, poems that embrace life's mysterious turns to the click of rosary beads, round and round the four Mysteries: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious. Perhaps stories must include loss—of parents, partners, health, dreams—before people are open to Love that loves them first, and in response, they blush. Love sung in the Canticle of Canticles, Song of Solomon. Perhaps there is nothing more theological than eros.