TEMPIETTO, ROME I love this tiny temple above Rome, in the rectangular little courtyard of San Pietro church.
Out the window of the bus en route, we could see the Thai countryside: the tiny temples, the huts, the fields of rubber trees.
In the old city, spin golden prayer wheels at tiny temples, then fortify yourself with salty yak-butter tea in the Ani Sangkhung Nunnery courtyard, or yak steak at the plush House of Shambhala restaurant.
On the road south of Villupuram, a stop at a tiny roadside Hindu temple one hot morning instantly draws a half-dozen women away from weeding the median of the new highway.
Hoan Kiem Lake, surrounded by weeping willows and other foliage, lies at the heart of the city, its curved red bridge leading to a tiny island with a temple.
We see Sontag beside the Seine, napping on a couch in the Hamptons, eating breakfast in a plush room at the Hotel Gritti Palace in Venice, sitting in the rubble of a bombed-out library in Sarajevo or standing in the famous rock corridor of Petra, a tiny silhouette against the temple's facade.
A tiny pit near my temple from a chicken pox scab that I picked off when sequestered in bed, blissfully, with a stack of Nancy Drew books and glasses of ginger ale.
And although Google Glass, eyeglass frames that let people use the Web on a tiny screen near their temples, are not yet for sale, they will let people find answers without reaching into their pockets.
Google Glass, eyeglass frames that let people use the Web on a tiny screen near their temples, are not yet for sale but will let people find answers without reaching into their pockets.
