This week, Staff Writer Jason Glenn presents his top five people he’d like to have a conversation with on a porch. Next week, look for Staff Writer Debra Dowling’s top five proverbs and quotations.

5) Benjamin Franklin
To me, a porch is the perfect place to kick back, have a couple cold ones and engage in relaxed, deep conversation. A lot is known about Old Ben, particularly his status as renaissance/ladies man extraordinaire, but I would love to find out what was really going on inside his cranium. I’m guessing he could talk about almost anything for an indeterminate amount of time.
Vast amounts of wine would be necessary.

4) Norm Abram
Not only does the original New Yankee Workshopper himself seem like a regular guy, but I’m also pretty sure by the end of the conversation we would have doubled the size of my porch and built some awesome cypress deck chairs to lounge in.
Miller High Lifes, just a couple.

3) Myself
Not myself in the schizophrenic voices in my head sense, but a whole other physical manifestation of me. I talk a lot, occasionally about things people find interesting but usually just to use up oxygen, and I’ve always suspected that if I were forced to have a conversation with myself it would end in mild violence.
Nothing caffeinated or containing whiskey.

2) The Dalai Lama
I mean, come on, who wouldn’t?
I would probably serve sun tea.

1) Willie Nelson
A porch is also the ultimate locale for a little fingerpickin’ and I can’t think of a person I’d rather shoot the breeze and jam out with than Willie. Of course, I only know about three chords, but I can see Willie accommodating my limitations and keeping it simple.
I’d have some PBRs, but I’m fairly sure Willie would bring his own “refreshments.”

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