This site is about two people - Mike Lax (also known as Cetacea), and Steve Hanes (also known as Esteban), and a number of things that interest them - Polymer Clay, the Radical Faeries, Gaia, politics, technology, and whatever else comes to mind. 

Esteban and I (Cetacea) have been 'Casa de los Mariposas' for over ten years. Esteban's home used to be known as Casa de Esteban's Home for Misfit Boys, but when it became our house we figured a name change was in order. Mariposas means 'butterfly' in Spanish, and has the same meaning as 'Faerie'.

We have been together since April 23, 1991, were hand-fasted on May 24, 1992, and became Domestic Partners in Travis County, Texas on November 24, 1993.  Cetacea is the techno-faerie/administrative secra-faerie of the house; Esteban provides the creative energy, along with wisdom and focus that Cetacea sometimes lacks.