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OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: Lives abstract and pointless

Posted onJuly 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is easy to speak about others in an abstract and pointless manner. What is more difficult is to engage the complexity of a human being. When we refer in such a manner, and reduce to a conceptual entity, the minimization allows one to refer to “it” as an object of derision. Thus can one subordinate and state without feeling, “Oh, X is worthless” or “Y is a waste of time”, as if the value of an individual can be quantified like mineral ore or spectrums of inestimable qualities. […] 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 …

Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Childhood wishes

Posted onJune 12, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We had them; some of us still remember and harbor them like sacrosanct relics of priceless value; and still others know of them and recollect some general idea long forgotten, once delighted in, but now rotting in the vestiges of abandoned buildings hollow but for the frame that haunts in the midnight moon. Wishes remain throughout one’s life, whether in the stage of adulthood or old age; but it is the childhood wishes one remembers that reveal the empty soul of what one has become, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Life erasing

Posted onMay 29, 2017April 13, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In youth and early adulthood, we add; in later years, life erases. Kids grow up and move elsewhere; vigor depletes; living spaces are downsized; mementoes once meaningful are discarded into a trash heap of forgotten memories; and health deteriorates, with diminution of lives by incremental depreciation both in appearance, worth and human value. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Scoffing paradigms

Posted onMay 15, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Of course, such a title can have a double entendre or duality of meanings – that, in the first instance, the accent is upon the word “scoffing” with a lowering of one’s voice upon “paradigms”, and that would mean: One turns up one’s nose at the very idea of paradigms. Or, alternatively, if both words are of equally monotonous tonal undulations, then it could mean that the paradigm itself is one which scoffs at other paradigms, differing principles or contrary perspectives. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The ‘Why’ of life

Posted onMay 10, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Why do we do that which we do? Do other species engage in such reflective self-assessments, or do they just perform the act without positing the query? Or course, there is the antecedent question of whether the question itself is asked in the linguistic modality which we embrace; or, is there another form of a more subtle nature that other animals correlate and learn from without a long utterance ending with a grammatical interrogative? Perhaps, in the mere instinctive alteration of actions future-oriented displays the capacity of other species to “learn” from past mistakes and potential dangers […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Overload

Posted onMay 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The comparative life is an illusion of sorts; Plato’s theme throughout is established every day, as appearances hide the reality beneath, and the allegory of the Cave – where shadows constitute the seeming truth and the truth appears as hidden seeming – is merely an archaic anachronism that has been vanquished, if merely because no one gives much weight to dead philosophers and nobody has the time for reflection upon questions that cannot provide answers instantaneously, as Google and High Speed Internet have allowed us to become accustomed. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement Benefits: Threads

Posted onMay 1, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

They are fragile and subject to being snapped; yet, we rely upon them to hold together the fabric of so many things, both in practical terms and in more nuanced settings of conceptual constructs cloaked in figurative speech. As in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, that invisible thread that gently tugs despite isolation, renunciation and attribution of apostasy in the chaos of cultural confusion; or of the woven cloth where thousands in aggregate intersecting patterns creates the strength of multitudes where the single entity would snap upon the breath of a dragon’s snore. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: False Positives

Posted onMarch 17, 2017February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We demand that a “retest” be done, to ensure that the result did not have the opposite effect. It is a linguistic conundrum that the affirmative means its negative; for, in medicine, a “positive” result is the worst of news, whereas in most every other context, it is a welcomed declarative. But because it is a result which is not embraced with delight, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Day after day

Posted onFebruary 20, 2017December 27, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is monotony a negative trait? How about consistency? What is it in life that we strive for, search out and look under stones and around corners? Is it possible that the life we already have, live by and daily “just do” is the one that is fated, meant to be, and of a satisfactory contentment such that change and disruption would be an unwelcome alteration? Why is it that much of our time is given to complaining and picking at dissatisfaction, and it is only when unwanted intercessions suddenly turn things upside down, create a tumult and travail of circumstances, that we then suddenly “appreciate” the simple things in life? […] Read More …