text: Peter, I saw this ending of the  tragic  Micah Johnson story today and thought of you:
    [Quoting his mother on his leaving the house]  "I told him to stay out of trouble...and he said , 'I will" she recalled.  His last words to me were 'love you."
  
  And I thought again of Johnny Cash and "Don't take your guns to town son", and while it's just a song, it resonated as common sense that this is the sort of advice most any loving Mom would give her son as he leaves the house with a young man's bristling energy.  Tragically Johnson didn't listen.
  
  Regarding my supposed starry-eyed love of celebrities, as the kids would say, "OMG!"  Frankly I detest our society's hero worship of celebrities and avoid them and their lives when possible.   But the late Johnny Cash I did like, partly his talent, partly because he reflected many of my values (though not in  his self-destructive behavior), and because he was the NON-celebrity, "The man in black."