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     - Las de Avalokiteshvara;
     - Las de Tara!
 - Happy [[2024]] all! May it be free from suffering to as many beings as possible.
+- [[bedbugs]] still going through [[The Great Wash]], as this period of doing lots of laundry to make sure no bed bugs (fully developed or in egg form) survive in clothes and bedlinen.
+  - I've been trying to do loving kindness with the bed bugs as individuals and as a species, even as they are dying in droves in the fumigated bedrooms.