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Federal Disability Retirement: The regularity of life

Posted onNovember 14, 2017December 31, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Metaphors abound, of course; of the stream of life, its cadence, likened to a steady march and the cyclical nature wrapped in the repetition of the growing dawn followed by the setting sun. The regularity of life represents a rhythm and monotony that provides a blanket of comfort (there goes the metaphor, again) that can be extracted from the lack of chaos. Most of us thrive best within the regularity of life’s monotony; it is the very few who seek and relish the chaos of life. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: Of good humor

Posted onSeptember 27, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Can it last, and for how long? Are there such people in this world, who wander about and retain a sense of good humor no matter what egregious worldly circumstances devastate and make destitute the trying soul? Or, like that chime that attracts little children to run with abandon into the streets upon hearing the approach of the good humor truck – you know, the company that was sued for creating an attractive nuisance, because children respond […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: The mud of life

Posted onJune 13, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The mud of life is the stuff of movies; we can romanticize it, serialize it into a best-selling paperback novel (skipping over the formality of a hardback in order to sell to the masses), and even turn it into a weekly television series; but in the end, what it means is that we are stuck in a rut at a gas station in the middle of a desolate desert with no money and no prospects. That is the metaphor of the phrase itself; there is little hope and even a fewer scintilla of a possibility of a potentiality to hope; many times removed, the mud of life is that period that we all hit now and again, where movement forward will never occur, and misery is the fated future forever and a day, […] Read More …

Early Retirement for Disabled Federal Gov. Employees: Noted durations

Posted onApril 13, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Don’t you hate those “Apps” that reveal how much time you have taken to engage Activity-X or mindless-video-game-Y? To engage in an aside for pure enjoyment’s sake is to get lost in the moment of leisure, to become engrossed and without a mind to time, problems of the world, circumstances of the present or the irrelevancy of one’s own station in life. To read a book – perhaps of no great consequence, neither a “classic” nor a best seller of sorts; to push buttons in responding to a mindless video game; to have a silly electronic conversation with a spouse, a friend, a daughter or son aside from the seriousness of wisdom, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: The party never thrown

Posted onApril 7, 2017June 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Why do we have angst over the nonexistent, the unknown, the yet-to-become, while concurrently failing to appreciate the concrete, that which is realized and the presence of those whom we declare to love, is before us and has stood by for all these years? What is it about the future participle of life that haunts us? […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Of human frailty

Posted onMarch 31, 2017August 19, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Youth is the folly that disbelieves; middle age, of a progressive realization that the past does not lie, but teaches us of existent graveyards we may have passed unnoticed just yesterday, with question suddenly more prominent about mortality, the afterlife, and whether it is possible to cheat illness, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: “Well, at least…”

Posted onMarch 30, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Admittedly, any substantive insight into such a conceptual proverb used in everyday life is attributable to the eloquent thoughts of Yiyun Li, in her recently published collection of essays. Such insights are so deliciously stated, with linguistic content so deftly conveyed, that the undersigned cannot refrain from grasping, grappling and attempting to add onto that which cannot be improved upon. Well, at least plagiarism is no longer anything more than a forgivable sin, and not even a venial one at that. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Moving on

Posted onMarch 29, 2017February 8, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

That is what people want to do, and in the aggregate, the world around. In engagements with others, there is a limited and quantifiable extent of patience. It is tantamount to that ‘arc of flight’ that every animal possesses – as long as you remain outside of that safe-zone, you will be a suspicious entity perceived by watchful caution; once you enter and breach the invisible periphery of an unseen arena, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: The Clock

Posted onFebruary 24, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is an interesting device. We can try and project back to a time of its non-existence, or at least when not every household owned one. What could it have been like? Where the hour was guessed at by the position of the sun – or was that not even part of the thought process? Did the sun, dawn, dusk and twilight merely present a foreboding for a different paradigm? Certainly, minutes and seconds likely had conceptual meaninglessness, and everyone worked, played and lived for the “moment”, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The sweater draped over a chair

Posted onFebruary 14, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

You look in the room and see the sweater draped over a chair. You turn your gaze elsewhere, engage the ongoing conversations and the din of others distracted. Later, you turn back your gaze again, and the sweater is gone. You look about to try and see whether someone picked it back up, is wearing it, or perhaps put it somewhere else. You imply and infer – yes, one must follow the general grammatical rule that the speaker implies while the listener infers; but you are both the speaker and the listener, the one who observes and the same one who steps outside of the conscious universe to observe the observed. […] Read More …