Jewel checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Wednesday (July 14), talking about how she channels creativity. The singer songwriter tells readers:

People sometimes ask how I channel creativity – be it writing songs, short stories or poems, painting or drawing. I don’t have to choose what I will do on any given day because it chooses me. It’s hard to describe – kind of like describing the difference between thirst and hunger. They are both strong impulses, but impossible to describe the subtle difference that causes you to reach for a glass instead of a spoon. That’s how it is with my art. One day I feel hungry to write poems. It’s just quiet. There is no melody to distract and I can focus on the distilled emotion that poetry lets me capture. Other times I find my hand reaching for a guitar, and I can feel a song wanting to be born. I just try to keep my mind still and get out of its way – and when I do, they bubble up quicker than I can write them down.

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Jewel checked in with fans on her blog at her official web site on Tuesday (August 25), where the Alaska native talked about returning home to meet with family and perform. The singer songwriter tells readers:

Hello everyone! I had so much fun in Alaska! Man, being home felt so good. I get so homesick for the country up there. There is nowhere else like it in the world, and pictures and even film just don’t do it justice. It felt like food for the soul, letting my eyes drift across the steep and rugged and untouched terrain. I feel lucky to have been raised in what I can only describe as one of the most breathtaking and wild places in the world. I have traveled all over the world and have seen so many magical, beautiful and majestic places- but nothing like Homer. It’s the way the mountains climb right out of the ocean on jagged wings- turning grey and slate and green and navy all in turns, and how glaciers flash their shocking blue undercoats through crevices in the ice that become visible in the slow bends of the frozen flow. The country that raised me is big and wild and I wandered endlessly on my horse in open country, where there are still open ranges where cattle graze with no fences, and bands of horses run wild in that big beautiful country, and where wolves and bears are a real predator to guard against. I just love it up there.

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Jewel checked in with fans on her official web site’s blog on Friday (July 17), talking about the ongoing economic crisis and efforts to improve access to health care in the U.S. The singer songwriter tells readers:

So, as I sit here and watch Morning Joe and hear how unemployment numbers are up and how the economy isn’t “stimulating” as hoped, and how not much of the stimulus money is even injected into our communities yet, and as I watch our government fight as if this were a football game and they were enemies whose only goal was to beat the other side instead of acting like adults doing what’s right, and who are all Americans- I have just one question- how are you all? How is the economy affecting you? What do you think of universal health care? Who has been laid off? Who’s doing ok, and what industry isn’t feeling the crunch yet? Do we have enough to provide our basic needs of food and shelter and health?

My industry is affected – tour sales and album sales are down. But I’m not complaining- I am certainly ok! I remember when I almost died in the parking lot of a hospital of blood poisoning due to an untreated kidney infection. No doctor would see me because I had no insurance. Man, those were low, hard times for me. I was begging for food, but I always had a quiet pride in myself, even though I was on low times and needed help. And I think that good kind of pride helped me make it through those tough times.

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