Reply #15: Yep, I have been sort of re-shifting my life focus in the last [View All]

[Bouncy Ball]

few months.

If I have to live in this burb for the next several years (before we "escape" to Austin, where one can be oneself a lot more than here), then at least we can be happier.

So we joined a UU church (religiously very liberal---we cheered the Supreme Court decision not to execute children last Sunday!) and I have met a lot of very progressive people there who live right around me (I just didn't know they were there!). The great part is one family at this church has kids who go to my daughter's school. I had no idea they were so liberal. So now we don't feel so alone at her school anymore, either (and I know several other Democrats there, too, including some teachers).

My boss is a GINORMOUS liberal and he and I have some venting bitch sessions pretty often.

HIS whole family is liberal and I have met and gotten to know them (his son and daughter in law are about my age and incredible).

My best friend is liberal and her boyfriend WAS apathetic about social and political issues until she got a hold of him and she could tell he was liberal in his views (he didn't know it, because he never thought about it) and now he's totally on the same page.

So I'm just building us a big ol' liberal network right here.