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OPM Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The Horizon of the “Other”

Posted onMarch 9, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The horizon is that demarcation between earth and the heavens; in days of yore, it was the navigational calculus extracted from the curvature of the visible sea in determining distance, time, and the impending cliff over which the ship’s captain would fathom monsters of devouring delights. It is where appearance emerges. What is shown; what becomes visible to the naked eye; that which is unconcealed and revealed; what the “other” allows for, and manifests, is the horizon of personhood. For some, the superficiality of one’s persona becomes evident quickly […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Self-predication

Posted onJanuary 23, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Some people are uncomfortable in doing it; others relish the repetitive self-reference, enjoying the first-person attribution and the incessant pronouncement of the personal pronoun, the centrality of dramatic characterization every time the “I” is inserted; throughout, everyone recognizes that the identification of the “I” can never be fully expunged despite a heightened level of modesty or humility. […]

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Postal & Federal Medical Retirement: To Shelve a Book

Posted onDecember 20, 2014December 3, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

It is an act of finality; a sense of resignation pervades when a book which one treasured is placed on a shelf. One may deceive oneself that it can always be retrieved at some future, unknown and unspecified date, but in a world where the bombardment of newness and the constancy of moving on to the “next” thing dominates, the chances are that the act of shelving will constitute the gathering of dust in corners where forgotten memories will atrophy with cobwebs of deliberative disregard. […]

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