Jewel Kilcher is a singer. And today Jewel the singer is using Twitter to send us a boast card from a boat somewhere sunny. There are no paparazzi to withstand, so Jewel goes native and sends us the pictures of her free spirits.

Jewel’s family has a lasting appreciation of boats:

My name is Jewel. Jewel Kilcher. (Yes, Jewel is my real given name). I am 5?6”. I have green eyes, like my grandmother Ruth. Ruth was an aspiring opera singer who left pre-war Germany, got on a ship headed to Alaska to marry a man she hardly knew because she felt her future children must be born somewhere free.

Another time:

I earned enough money to get on a ferry and cross the Sea of Cortez and take trains through central Mexico.

Later:

I drifted after I graduated.

Now you can get to imagine what Granny Jewel endured as you gaze upon Jewel in a bikini, on a boat, somewhere