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Medical Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Persuasion

Posted onOctober 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What does it mean to “persuade”? Is it an outcome-based event? Can one be “persuasive”, yet never persuade anyone to act upon a commitment made, perhaps verbally or with a nod of the head? What of a person who everyone agrees makes the most persuasive arguments, turns everyone’s heads with accolades of “wow” and “boy!”, yet no one can find a single person who has been persuaded to change one’s mind or follow? How about in battle – of that skinny little runt of a captain who nervously spoke, but who charged the troops up with great words and ideas […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: The elixir of life

Posted onJune 17, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is the substance we expunge necessarily the opposite of the positive? Does the mere fact of expiation denote that which is unwanted, or merely no longer of utility? In ancient times, an elixir was considered to be a substance of great desirability; it possessed multiple meanings, including a reference to that substance which was used in alchemy to alter base-metals into the gleaming riches of the natural order found deep beneath the chasms of the earth – gold. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: The mud of life

Posted onJune 13, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The mud of life is the stuff of movies; we can romanticize it, serialize it into a best-selling paperback novel (skipping over the formality of a hardback in order to sell to the masses), and even turn it into a weekly television series; but in the end, what it means is that we are stuck in a rut at a gas station in the middle of a desolate desert with no money and no prospects. That is the metaphor of the phrase itself; there is little hope and even a fewer scintilla of a possibility of a potentiality to hope; many times removed, the mud of life is that period that we all hit now and again, where movement forward will never occur, and misery is the fated future forever and a day, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits for Federal Employees: The bugle

Posted onMay 12, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Unlike its cousins, it has no valves or pitch-altering devices, but must be modified through the movement of the lips, the extent of breath exhaled and the undulating modifications of combined muscles in the lips, tongue and throat. Perhaps from the days of riding a horse in the cavalry, where playing an instrument while charging full force ahead on a horse stumbling across rough terrain forced the instrument’s player to modulate through strain of keeping one’s self from falling; in any event, its very lack of complexity belies the simplicity of the bugle, as appearances are indeed deceiving. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The intransigent excuse

Posted onFebruary 22, 2017December 8, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Much of life is spent in retrospectively justifying actions; the remainder of the time, of making excuses where we can, and when we need to (which is often). The great thing about excuses is that the reserve of them can never be depleted; like the never-exhaustive stars in the universe, we can always discover, make up, or otherwise concoct another. Thus, to counter that a person has “run out of excuses” is to defy reality; we can always, if the need requires, go back to one that we long ago abandoned, and stick to it. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Expectations beyond the norm

Posted onFebruary 8, 2017December 15, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We begin the nascent origins of remembrances expecting greater things beyond the normal levels of reality; that is what we now define as a “good childhood” as opposed to a lesser, or even an ordinary one to bear and be burdened with. We are admonished that we can “be anything”; that potentiality and possibility (is there even any conceptual clarity of distinction between the two, anymore, and what of the third in its trifecta – of probability?) are limitless; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Law: Care to Perfection

Posted onFebruary 2, 2017January 21, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

At what point does one ascend from mere care, to perfection of accomplishment? Is it when we determine that which matters to us most – i.e., where self-interest intersects with talent otherwise left unfulfilled? Or, through maturity of purpose and a self-realization that perfection is preferable to a lesser kindling of care, does one simply “buck up” and seek to embrace a higher order of accomplishments?

Perfection is an impossible standard to attain; care, a reasonably easy one, because time, effort and struggled attempts compensate for any lack of natural talent. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The cog in the process

Posted onFebruary 1, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Does perspective have an influence upon one’s approach in engaging an endeavor of any sort? For instance, does it matter whether or not the cynic and the one who sees the world consistently as “half-empty” or unwittingly cruel, nevertheless succeeds at every turn and venture? Or, conversely, of the person who always has a “positive attitude” and sees good in every corner, but nevertheless fails at every attempted feat; did “perspective” and viewpoint make a difference? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Law: The cruelty of our nature

Posted onJanuary 28, 2017February 8, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Note that we are not positing that nature in general is cruel; for, in nature, predatory behaviors and devouring of one another is merely a tautological definition of nature itself, in the constant balance between prey and predator, betwixt overpopulation and dominance of one species over another, etc. No, the “our” refers to a specific species – of the human kind. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: How truly ordinary we are

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017March 12, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Every now and again, someone will make that inane statement that seems to fly by in a discourse of overwhelming linguistic overcrowding of so many such pearls of wisdom: “Oh, we’re all just human.” Is it a logical tautology in a strict sense? The “we” referred to is obviously a subject which includes individual human beings; the “human” described and identified, is the same as the “we” previously posited. […] Read More …