Gone home, a modest proposal, and AI and dog reiki
The article reflects on the author's friendship with an 84-year-old woman named Miss Catherine, who recently passed away. It highlights her vibrant personality and the deep bond they shared over the years. The author expresses gratitude for her life and the lessons learned from her, particularly the importance of living fully and with thanks.
- ▪Miss Catherine was a lifelong resident of Southeast Washington D.C. and known for her strong personality.
- ▪The author served as a pallbearer at her funeral and was affectionately called 'Eddie' by her.
- ▪She had a deep desire to return home before her passing, which she achieved shortly before her death.
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| Original publisher | The Pillar |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/gone-home-a-modest-proposal-and-ai |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 14:14:20 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T14:20:01.346Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T14:20:01.346Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | lYeJHMybxbBw |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Pillar PostsGone home, a modest proposal, and AI and dog reikiThe Friday Pillar PostEd. CondonMay 29, 2026∙ PaidShareHappy Friday friends,I know we’ve had an encyclical this week, and the news of the Church hasn’t stopped either. And we’ll get to all of that in a moment.But I wanted to talk about something else, which has been the real focus of my week. In recent days, I lost a friend. Catherine, Miss Catherine to me.We were, in the eyes of the world, probably pretty unlikely friends.
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