Also in Dutch blue does not mean sad, but I just can't think of something better.

Dear Paula,

maybe to can add the words (for many people)?

Blue is the color of the sky and of the seas, and yet the word blue in the world has come to mean sad (for many people). It may be that blue has come to mean sad because you know that beyond the sky and beyond the seas lies a Greatness that you faintly remember. You know there is something, and, yet, you know not what. There is something alluring beyond. You can’t quite reach it, and so blue has come to mean sad

love and light, namasté, Anneke

In French Canada, we use the expression "avoir les bleus" (literally "to have the blues") which is borrowed from the african music of America called "the blues". I don't know if it is used in France (Chantal?).

But in this first paragraph, it is not obvious (in the translation) that the blue of the sky is connected to the "blues".
Yet, the sense of sadness brought by the blue of the sky can be derived from our inner feeling of not being able to reach what is beyond that blue of the sky.

This type of linguistic situation happens every now and then in Heavenletters. This morning, in translating HL #4390, I had to deal with: "When you feel down, you have one direction to go in, and that is up." In french we cannot translate "to feel down" by using an expression that contains the word down ("bas" in french) which opposes to "up". We cannot express this word play. We then have to translate in a straightforward way without trying to express this word play.

I totally agree with Luus. In Spanish blue doesn't mean sad also. So the best thing is to put (in English) or (in some languages) if there's another where this word applies to "sad".

Blessings...

Lourdes
Dreamhealer