I was going to just smash the leaf and let all the pieces stay in a form similar to the original leaf, but these leaves just don’t crumble the way I expected. So instead I arranged them in a pattern like the original shape. But broken things often don’t stay the way they break. The leaves will blow in the wind losing their pattern and devolving into chaos.
Tragedy can do that to us. Hopefully, in the end we can put ourselves back together again, but some do and some don’t. I think most of us fall somewhere in the middle. We break up and put ourselves back together over and over. Some parts get stronger and some weaker. Sometimes pieces blow away completely and other times they blow into a pile all together.