Spring blues

"A paradise of flowers in a violent world and a person is darned lucky who only has the blues and you know that's so."
Garrison Keller, on Salon.com about Iraq

Yep---my itty bitty spring blues pale.......

I live in a place that sends whole battalions of 18-23-year-olds to Irag on a regular basis and schedules funerals on an equally regular basis--gives a more immediate perspective to the news and the blues.

Riverbend, the pseudonym of a young Iraqi woman who blogs from Baghdad tells what we don't read in the paper.

Yep, the basements of the world hold a lot more than a paltry set of the blues.