Fishing trips with my dad was one of my favorite things to do. Every summer we would venture to Elephant Butte lake in New Mexico for a family vacation. He would prepare our fishing poles and instruct me to watch the floating bobber connected to the bait, and if it sank and I had a fish on the line. So I would fix my eyes on the red and white floating ball noticing how it stayed afloat through the day in calm and rough waters. It was buoyant. This image came to my mind last w