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Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Youthful mind, decrepit body

Posted onAugust 11, 2017October 28, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The oxymoron of the objective world; yes, it can perhaps be maintained in the virtual reality of cognitive dissonance, but the human body warns and tells all. The basic problem is that while the “mind” retains an image of frozen time, the body continues upon the progressive course of constancy in deterioration. We all have an image of ourselves, and no matter how many times a day we look into the mirror, that “image” remains with us, as we are not the one’s watching ourselves as we grow older. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Between balance and perspective

Posted onJuly 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Between the two is a chasm often unnoticed, where the preface to either and both may be a skewed outlook or a myopic view of an issue, a trope of a trolley of hardships gone uncontrollably berserk; and once a person “gets over” the emotional turmoil of a reaction steeped in feelings, sensibilities and angst, then a certain condemnation of “balance” may arise, which then allows for a different “perspective” to develop. Balance is often thought to come after perspective, […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Meaning of life

Posted onJuly 14, 2017March 15, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most of us are too busy to pause for air, reflect upon theoretical, hypothetical or philosophical issues that have little to do with day-to-day living or earning wages in order to maintain a certain standard of living. Every now and then, however, when the tumults of life’s encounters reaches a pinnacle of unsolvable problems such that the stressors exceed the barometric pressure allowable for the human psyche to withstand, there is a compelled stoppage, a mandated cessation and a forced condemnation to rest. It is, in short, called a “medical condition”. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Representation: Trains of life

Posted onJune 27, 2017August 30, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are trains that come and go daily; others, with lengthy destinations, like the Trans-Siberian Express traveling from Moscow to Vladivostok or the Venice-Simplon Orient Express visiting Paris, Venice, Istanbul, and places in-between; and others merely for the monotony of going to work and coming home. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: The direction of life

Posted onJune 22, 2017February 27, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We are told from a very early age that we must have one; like winds that carry seasonal warmth and jet streams that bring unseasonable temperatures, we are ingrained to be purposive, teleological and focused upon the goal in mind. Wisdom-filled proverbs echo beyond the history of instructional transference from parent to child, community to individual and generation to modernity: aiming for the target; sticking to a task; seeing things to their completion; being patient in everything you do; […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Stifling rationalism

Posted onJune 19, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Although it may no longer show in modernity, it was the dominant methodology accepted as reflecting the Aristotelian belief that man is essentially a rational animal, and thus the general approach towards reaching conclusions should embrace the perspective that the criterion of truth is based upon not sensory, but intellectual and deductive foundations. But if the thought process fails to utilize the formal laws governing deductive reasoning, and nobody reads Russell or Quine, anyway, what is the difference? Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Leisure, nature’s antonym

Posted onJune 14, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Observe the animals excluding the human one; what do they all do, except perhaps the male lion who awaits the predatory prowess of the lioness and her cubs who hunt for the royal crown; and the rest, of constant pecking, searching, laboring just to survive. Nature’s law requires survival; survival mandates predatory consumption; the rest look out that they are not in the sequence of a food chain that includes one’s self. For, it is the resting bird, the supine squirrel and the slumbering rabbit that becomes the meal of Nature’s law. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Disability: When reality exceeds the nightmare

Posted onJune 7, 2017January 4, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

At what point do we describe a dream as merely a dream, and not a nightmare, and does the contrast between the two as set in comparative standing against one’s daily reality change the equation at all? Are some people more able to tolerate greater tumult of images ensconced within the framework of the “inner eye” that receives the moving reels of dreams, nightmares and memories? Is there a connection between reality and dreams, reality and nightmares, and dreams and nightmares? […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: A breach of instinct

Posted onJune 6, 2017October 6, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What if? that fragile balance that exists in nature, seen when squirrels scrounge about in search of roots and nuts, moving within the tranquil space besides cardinals, woodpeckers, rabbits and robins abounding when, suddenly, birds attack the rabbits and squirrels, and in turn, the rabbits and squirrels chase one another and attempt to catch and devour the birds, and the mayhem that follows goes on for an unceasing eternity. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement from Federal Government Employment: Imprisoned souls

Posted onApril 26, 2017January 27, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Do we immediately know of the figurative sense of such a concept? As the Medieval times of dark, dank and dire dungeons no longer house the tortured detritus of human excrement cast aside upon the nod of displeasure noted by a King, a Prince or a scorned Court of Royal Courtier, so the immediate presumption is that such a term must encompass some cognitive obstacle or encircling of a mind otherwise in agony. And what of the second term in the concept – does it denote something separate and apart from the whole of a human figure […] Read More …