It is a hilarious phenomena!
We should all gang up on politicians and make gifts of for Christmas. The Australian Minister for Immigration at this time (what's 'er name agen?) (newman, Jocelyn) collects glass paperweights for her desk in the Parliament. Also she is in charge of the many Muslims refugees in Australian detention centres. Surely they won't mind being in the glass house for a while with Aunt Joss.
(jocelyn newman is a right wing federal MP who has made a strong stand in support of women's refuge funding and sole parent pensions being continued; and I will call her Aunt Joss because she undertook oversight of continuing funding to a housing project in Canberra that afforded to house me for quite some many years; although it became a little derailed by the kafir eventually, but only up until last I heard of) (Canberra is not really a sheep paddock but quite like a country town governing a nation, and I have lived there longer than any other place so far in my life, but not now)
Also I have a friend who is a glass blower, and glass balls are so interesting! He wrote an honours thesis for a fine arts degree all about marbles. You just can't go past a good cat's eye. (?) or what? Is there some story about a caged tiger that relates to Ka'ba in a glass ball? A really elusive part of Shari'ah keeps coming to mind the slipping out again. I hate that!
Cool glass ball but!
(and I wonder if any will survive until the glass trickles out of a sphere since glass is a liquid not a solid?)
wasalam