Put it in the small kitchen––someone will eat it.

Shundo said this of a cookie that was broken and therefore not suitable to serve for tea.  It is another exemplar of a category many small kitchen items fall into: the broken and perfect.  It is satisfying to see these  items find such swift dispatch.

Eating such a cookie is probably what led Dogen to say “no [creature] ever comes short of its own completeness.  Wherever it stands it does not fail to cover the ground.”

With an eye toward taxonomy, I wanted to take a picture of it, one peanut butter cookie, cracked along one of its forkscore lines, in a white bowl at the center of the table. But of course it was gone before I could come back with my camera.