It brings up my front door, chill nights with my girlfriend, family picnics, town shop fronts, screaming crackheads, and paper mache hippie floats protesting uranium and live export in the Fremantle Parade.
One opponent, artist David Cerny, made his protest visible this week by floating a huge purple middle finger along the Vltava river in front of the presidential castle.
Instead, she and other protest organizers built a floating prayer camp made of rafts.
And in terms of the topics that we have floating around right now, one is the current protest going on in the NFL related to the taking the knee and Colin Kaepernick.
Beyond discrediting the public's outrage and the protests themselves, a type of news-meme is floating around that shows screenshots of Sammy Yatim's Facebook page.
When the mayor of an outlying district found five bodies floating in the M'Poko River, he went to the independent radio station to protest.
Over the ensuing days, despite every muscle and ligament in my legs and pelvis screaming in protest, I floated on a cloud of satisfaction.
To offer protest without an argument grounded in thorough knowledge is in fact to offer no protest at all, for it is as if passing clouds, ideas floating with no tie to the earth itself.
The only clue I had to the International Monetary Fund/World Bank protests taking place in Washington, DC last weekend was the inflatable palm tree floating down the road.
But just along from London's Tower Bridge on the south side of the river, Republic's protest, what they describe as "the biggest and boldest in modern times", will be floating a different idea.
