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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Last

Posted onMay 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a peculiar word; for, it can mean both the final, end and trailing subject remaining in the far recesses of a sequence, likely to be forgotten and – except for the Biblical reference where such an entity can be accelerated to the front of the proverbial line – surely to be abandoned; yet, it also connotes endurance, the capacity to outfox others in similar circumstances, and the symbolic appearance of vitality and energy. “Oh, that’s the last thing in the world you want to buy”, goes the dismissive utterance in considering that which is not of significance or relevance as a priority to be considered. And: “That’s one of a kind – it will last forever,” comes the accolade showered upon a product of excellence. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Life is rarely ‘Just’

Posted onDecember 22, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is it just? And of the query, what meaning do we ascribe to it? Of one formulation, an implied addendum unspoken – as in, “Is life just about going through the motions, or is there more to it than that?” In another manner of meaning, it can encapsulate the greater paradigms of fairness, balance and equality of opportunity: the ‘just’ is merely an abbreviation of the greater concept of ‘Justice‘ with a capital J. Or, perhaps the duality of meanings is intended – for, in the former manner of speaking, is there not an implicit denotation that the wider connotation is inferred […] 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 …

Postal & Federal Disability: The Depersonalized World, Sans the Sacred

Posted onMarch 6, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the personal encounter, the direct engagement, that many seek to actualize in hopes of fulfillment. “If only I could speak to the person”; “If you knew the real me”; and, indeed, it is that depersonalized universe which undermines and tempers. Somehow, if we are merely one among many, like the little girl in the red dress in Schindler’s List, the singularity of the living entity shouts at us for relevance, significance, and a chance to distinguish. It is in the personalization of the deep chasm reaching down from the inertia of life, from which the sacred emerges. […] Read More …