Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

My guest joining us from West Virginia is my friend Stephanie.

Welcome to the podcast, Stephanie.

Thank you, Richard.

I appreciate you having me.

I'm going to read you an email that Stephanie sent me about six weeks ago. My name is

Stephanie. I'm an artist who records under the name Aurora Driftworks and have created a series of

albums that tell the honest story of my spiritual journey. That journey includes faith,

family dysfunction, mental hospitals, addiction,

recovery, disfellowshipment, eventually being allowed to serve a mission, becoming ill during

that service, and later experiencing inactivity, same-sex attraction, and faith struggles.

I created these albums to explore those experiences through music,

and to show how faith journeys often move through cycles rather than straight lines,

the pride cycle music, if you will.

Aurora Driftworks is a project that focuses on reaching out with my heart through song

to uplift, encourage, and promote the feeling

of an understanding in the boundless love of our Savior. The genera of this project is fluid.

I can talk more about, I can move from folk pop to, well, I can't even read indie dubstep as an example. Yeah. And we will link in the show notes to

Stephanie's work. Um, and she will talk about that, but that's really all I know. Um,

you like me or I'm just glad to have a chair or driving, and Stephanie is so prepared.

She's giving me an outline of the thing she's going to discuss, and this is really brave

of her to talk about these.

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