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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 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 …

OPM Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Admission

Posted onMay 25, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a noun of peculiar variability, perhaps all interconnected upon reflection. It can refer to the permission to enter, whether by right, payment or removal of obstacles; or, denoting the price of such entrance; or even yet, a confession or acknowledgment of a point taken; and in other contexts, of being accepted into a fraternity of sorts, as in “admission to a university” or “to the legal bar” – meaning, not an actual, physical movement through gates now open, but a conceptual membership into a community of selective individuals. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Government Employment: Still Life

Posted onOctober 28, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The meaning can evoke a duality of concepts; of the artistic mode, where self-contradiction is inherent – for, it is often in depictions of inanimate objects, presented in combinations not normally seen in true living circumstances, that the artist arranges in order to capture a semblance of that which is never, or rarely, encountered. Or of the alternate implication: Once thought to have been deceased, the realization that there is yet a soul to revive, an aspiration to embrace, and hope again to realize. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Life as a frown

Posted onSeptember 24, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is most of life a frown, with a few smiles which make it all worthwhile? Or is it perceived as its opposite – of predominantly smiles, with some frowns interspersed throughout? Is that like the test-question for psychological health, of whether the glass is seen as half empty, or half filled? Does the answer to the question depend upon the mood of the moment, the ethereal pattern of the day, or the fabric of that which is woven into our DNA by a matrix of unassailable conventions? There is, to be sure, a weight of paradigms and an interwoven context which cumulatively aggregates into a “personality” of who one is; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: When and what to file

Posted onSeptember 21, 2016April 5, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In preparing an application for Federal Disability Retirement , multiple standard government forms must be completed. As most Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers are under the “FERS” system (an acronym for “Federal Employees Retirement System ”) as opposed to the older system of CSRS (standing for, “Civil Service Retirement System”), the applicable forms are comprised of two (2) “sets”: […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Writing another’s life

Posted onAugust 5, 2016March 22, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is all well and good to write the narrative of one’s life, and to live it in accordance with the prose and poetry (or lack thereof) which we embrace; but to write another’s life — it makes one pause, hesitate and move with trepidation. For, we ask ourselves: Of what right do we have? Is that best for the other person? We make such a mess of our own lives; what burden of responsibility must we undertake in order to shoulder the writing of another’s life? But that is precisely what we do when we have children, isn’t it? […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Happy Meter

Posted onDecember 31, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We have metrics for everything, now; devices simultaneously wearable as necklaces to gauge heart rates and exercising of limbs; of crystals which tell of emotive alterations throughout the day; and connective apparatus lest we lose a signal within the vast field of human interactions with the greater world in distant horizons. Then, why not a “happy meter”? How would it determine the accuracy within a spectrum of a day’s journey? Would it be based upon a pinnacle on a graph? […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Of Tomorrow’s Dreams Delayed

Posted onDecember 22, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We like to think that our lives progress unencumbered in a linear line of advancement, with nary a bump or an obstacle unconquerable, and but for the occasional exuberance of planned erraticisms, the journey should be a smooth ride without surprises. But just as planes sometimes fall from the sky, and nature betrays its perfection by mistaken errors of comedic turmoil, so the linear aspect of constancy often must confront the bumpiness of expectations. Life rarely turns out as planned, and the more we plan, the less we expect fulfillment. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The furrowed face

Posted onDecember 10, 2015January 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Does the palm reader tell from lines deepened and extended by time, or in the creases of birth and predetermined fate? Do the ruts and chasms criss-crossing like doodling designs created by a madman mixing a cauldron of witch’s brew depend upon fate already set, or can the future be altered by choices one foresees? And what of the face — the creases around one’s mouth, the ruts above the furrowed brow, or the fine filaments of timeless cuts around the eyes; do they tell a story of joy and promise, or of sadness and sorrow? […] Read More …