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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Reality and poetry

Posted onAugust 2, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

A woman sits on a park bench surrounded by the concrete giants of looming buildings and antiseptic structures overhanging and overshadowing all but the remnants of nature’s detritus, with the cooing pigeons that bob their heads back and forth as they meander about in the contrast between reality and poetry. And she has a book in her hands. It is a book of poetry. Who the author is; what the verses metaphorically narrate; how the images impact the quiet reader; these are not so important as the oxymoron of life’s misgivings […] 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 …

OPM Disability Retirement and the Demythologization of the Process

Posted onFebruary 16, 2015May 17, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Beyond being an ugly word, Spinoza attempted it, but closer to the heart of a flawed hermeneutical approach, the theologian, Rudolf Bultmann spent his career attempting to separate the conceptually inseparable narratives encapsulating historical content, context and the meaning behind miracles and metaphor. All processes are mysterious, until detachedly analyzed, devalued or debunked. Some merely throw up their hands and reject a subject in its entirety; others spend a lifetime in trying to understand it, and thus do cottage industries emerge. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: Times of Reflection

Posted onDecember 31, 2014November 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

There is never a time when reflection should not be part of one’s arsenal of daily living; but too much reflection, during “down” times where interludes of rumination can become a compound for exacerbated worrying, may result in unnecessary turmoil, and ultimately of impotent inaction. […] Read More …