burned hot

While the news of Wynn's death
is surprising, it isn't. I don't mean this in either a negative or
positive way - there are some people who seem like they just might
not last until a ripe old age. Wynn was one of them, to me. I figure
that a person only gets a finite amount of energy in a lifetime, a
body can only take a certain amount of abuse, physical and
psychological, those synapses can only fire so many times before they
wear out...all this to say that Wynn seemed to burn pretty hot and
pretty fast. The fact that his body just gave out on him, if indeed
that is what it was, doesn't seem odd, somehow.

Leah Coolidge