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Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Distractions

Posted onMay 31, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

They are the projects of life of which Heidegger recognizes, allowing for avoiding the inevitabilities of life’s challenges; of fate, mortality, future insecurity, and death. What quantifiable slice of one’s life is governed by distractions? Must it always be less than 50% in order to remain so, and if it exceeds that halfway point, does it then become something substantive and not merely the peripheral meaning of what it means to “be distracted”? If a distraction is considered to be an aside – that which waylays a person’s attention by focusing upon […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The leaked information

Posted onNovember 17, 2016February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most “secrets” are well-known; it is the combining of a multiplicity of the unknown, which constitutes the importance of leaked information. Thus, it may be disseminated as to the “what”, but until it can be connected to the “when” or the “who”, the irrelevancy of the data remains in its isolation of significance. Or, perhaps what will occur is revealed, and by whom, and even the destined time and place; […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The Abridged Joyce

Posted onJuly 29, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The extraction and extinguishment is done by unnamed others, sometimes in teams of unknown quantities, and certainly of dubious qualification of insight. In a similar vein, writers have always complained of the artistic ineptitude of editors, and editors of the quaint verbosity detracting from the plot, narrative and captivating flow missed by writers in pursuit of “Art”; but is there ever a “middle ground” when it comes to the integrity of the soul? But how can you cut away the content of the work, when the process itself is part and parcel of the substantive construct of the whole itself? […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Lawyer: The Disadvantage of the I-Thou Perspective

Posted onAugust 27, 2015January 16, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

People tend to expect the best results; and when a Federal or Postal employee files for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the applicant who is unrepresented and prepares, formulates and files the OPM Disability Retirement forms packet on […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Blank Canvas

Posted onJanuary 16, 2015May 1, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

For a painter, it is either the sight of uncontrollable delight, or a subtle sense of foreboding into depths of despondency; for the blank canvas represents two sides of a single coin: an opportunity to do what one can, or the beginning of that which may be rejected by an unappreciative public eye. But that is the inherent anomaly of every opportunity presented: potential success, or possible failure. That is why we carry around within us quips of self-appeasement, in order to lessen the weight of expected shortcomings: “Nothing gained, nothing lost”; “It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”; the list of 100 successful people who failed at first; and other proverbial self-motivators. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: Dawn’s Transition

Posted onJanuary 13, 2015March 22, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney7 Comments

In the calm of morning darkness, when the stillness of winter whispers a hushed tone of quietude just before the first break of dawn, one’s perspective falls askew amidst the shadows and desolation of winter. Is that a rock or a dead bird, frozen in the stillness of winter’s despair? Was the movement behind the trees a reflection, or just the first faintness of dawn’s exposure? […] Read More …