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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 …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Static Divides

Posted onDecember 19, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most of our lives are struggles to maintain the status quo; for, as change results in turmoil, so rectitude of unchanged repetition requires the least amount of effort, but mere monotony of action to forego any greater expenditure of further efforts. It is when the static longevity of identical mirroring of life begins to harm, that it then divides us. Doing the same thing daily, over and over again, with slight variations to accommodate life’s vicissitudes, allows for the peaceful quietude of daily living; […] 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 …