Here’s another great resouce that I found a couple of days ago. It’s called Global Voices and is a blog aggregator of sorts of global bloggers. It breaks blogging down by nation. For example you could find bloggers in Rwanda or Britain. In Niger or Canada. They also have a general RSS feed for it as well. It’s worth checking out. The blogs are on everything from politics to war to culture to concerts to history. You can also sort by these categories. Check it out.
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be ... I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry