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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 …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: No time for empathy

Posted onMarch 9, 2017May 16, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Perhaps its disappearance and rarer occurrences are not because of defection of angels and loss of virtue from the circumference of human character, but for a much simpler reason: We have no time for it, nor patience, nor capacity to embrace. Often, the intersection between the reality of our social constructs and the loss of moral foundations mixes […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The Future of Now

Posted onDecember 21, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Human beings have the unlimited capacity of projecting into the future, such that a present picture of what may occur some time hence can be visualized; but whether and how many bring the future to the fore, such that the present becomes encompassed into the reflective reality of current circumstances, is of an imaginative rendering few take the time to engage in. By focusing upon the future as some ethereal fog somewhere in the distant netherworlds, we can justify the tendency to procrastinate and kick the proverbial can down the road; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The tapestry of modernity

Posted onDecember 18, 2015October 7, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Every age has its feel of fabric of the times; in ages past, the woven loom of quiet hamlets with curls of smoke slowly rising from the warmth of the hearth; in others, the tension wrought at the dawn of the industrial revolution, where the ways of old and the textiles of handiworks would soon be replaced by the machines of progress. In modernity, there is the tactile sense of restlessness, of communities splintered, where we are told that the inevitable march of progress is but for the dawn of an age of leisure, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Moments of Perceptual Clarity

Posted onDecember 17, 2015January 7, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We tend to seek that which we cannot find; apply criteria beyond rational capacity; and derive statistical results nowhere to be discovered but for quantitative input implied by imaginary output. That single source of “meaning”; that “cause” which provides value; that lottery of life’s misgivings which fortune promised but never conveyed; and so the inheritance which Cain and Abel sought but for the love of their father and the instability which Dostoevsky described in his novels of heritage, […] Read More …