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OPM Disability Retirement: Leisure, nature’s antonym

Posted onJune 14, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Observe the animals excluding the human one; what do they all do, except perhaps the male lion who awaits the predatory prowess of the lioness and her cubs who hunt for the royal crown; and the rest, of constant pecking, searching, laboring just to survive. Nature’s law requires survival; survival mandates predatory consumption; the rest look out that they are not in the sequence of a food chain that includes one’s self. For, it is the resting bird, the supine squirrel and the slumbering rabbit that becomes the meal of Nature’s law. […] Read More …

FERS Disability Retirement: The mistakes we all make

Posted onMay 26, 2017May 4, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are those who make it their life’s goal not to have remorse for decisions made; but is that truly a worthwhile achievement? At the end of it all, is there a special space on the unwritten tombstone that lists the mistakes avoided, the embarrassments averted, and the admissions of deficiencies concealed? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Arrive with bluff, depart with bluster

Posted onMarch 10, 2017June 10, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

That has become the motto of universal exceptionalism; it is the bravado of the incompetent, the arrogance of the ignorant and the methodology of the unwary: besides, it is a funny line plagiarized from a work by Evelyn Waugh (no, that is a male writer, not a female). It is to come into a circumstance, a job, an assignment or a social conduit acting […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS: Junkyards

Posted onJune 10, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the latter in the compound word which is left forgotten and unnoticed, precisely because of the screaming blare represented by the former, demanding attention by the sheer nature and character of its breaching sensibilities, like the spoiled cousin refusing to abide by the conventions imposed upon uninvited visitors and customs curtailing unwanted guests. Once, before time forgotten and memories untarnished, the landscape was perhaps a pasture green with wildflowers and vegetation overgrown; then, a possessor who perhaps put up a fence to demarcate the beauty […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Of words and deeds

Posted onApril 13, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Does a personal pronoun necessarily attach itself to a deed? If an opinion is expressed as a formal, generic pronoun, and not in the first person, nominative case, is it still the declaration of the author? If, following upon the words written or spoken, the individual expressing the viewpoint follows it up with a deed or act, does the one follow from the other? Is there a causal connection between the two? Does it matter who says the utterance, as opposed to the content of the pronouncement? […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Dickens, Salinger & Capote, Continued…

Posted onMarch 16, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

One could easily spend a lifetime on each, separately; of the first in the trilogy, he mercifully died before the advent of the industrial revolution, whence he may have witnessed even greater upheavals of economic unrest and labor turmoil; of the latter two, they were contemporaries who followed divergent paths — with Salinger left in the hermitage of his insular world of fears, paranoia and distrust of a world which had offered only experiences which validated such churning for a tortured soul, and for Capote, a premature death prompted by a life of public destruction. […] Read More …

FERS Disability Retirement: The Damascus Depiction

Posted onFebruary 23, 2016July 4, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The story of Saul of Tarsus was the only true depiction of conversion, of the contrasting alteration of extremes on a spectrum of change; all others following, including Augustine’s Confessions, are mere exaggerations in order to rise to the level of profound comparison between the ‘before’ and the ‘after’. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The View from the Balcony of One’s Soul

Posted onJune 10, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

It can only be in metaphorical terms by which we express such sentiments; and some recent essays have contended that true comprehension within the context of any language game requires, by necessity and tautological argument, metaphors. The concept of one’s “soul” itself may be entirely metaphorical — or a simile of sorts — and placed within the context of the physical terrain of a balcony, the combination of the immaterial with the material presents an image beyond mere fanciful flights of the imagination, […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Pretending

Posted onMay 27, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the creative imagination which ultimately separates man from his counterpart; and, in the end, those costumes we display, and wear as vestiges of who we were, what we have become, and how we want others to appreciate us — in the aggregate, they reveal either our pretending selves, or at the very least, our pretentiousness. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who have a medical condition, such that the medical condition necessitates filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, the extension from childhood through adulthood is best personified in the ability and capacity to “pretend” […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The Farcical Foray

Posted onMay 23, 2015October 19, 2018AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the complexity of the absurd which tends to amaze; whether, in this day and age, we have lost the subtlety of the ludicrous, is sometimes to be held with awe. Shakespeare’s Court jesters, clowns and fools all had that capacity to meander with linguistic pointedness; and it was in the very contrast between a character taking absurdity too seriously, and the juxtaposition of seriously expressing the absurd, that truth of circumstances often emerge. […] Read More …