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Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: The character of each day

Posted onJuly 22, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What does the day bring? Do we awaken, put our finger up to the winds of time or the breeze of the day and ask that question before getting up, dressing and opening the door into a world beyond that may or may not fulfill the promises we believe to be granted? Or, regardless of the indications, the barometers that forewarn or the compass that fails to direct, do we nevertheless move forward and tackle the challenges faced or otherwise deliberately and willfully avoid? […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Random Happenstance

Posted onJanuary 10, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

A determination concerning the random nature of a material and unconscious universe can only come about in contrast to a recognition that there is a comparison to be made, to its opposite corollary — that of a teleological state where will, consciousness and deliberation of action occurs. Thus, one can bemoan the random happenstance of events, but to complain of an inherent “unfairness” becomes a self-contradiction, precisely because to do so is to declare otherwise than to acknowledge its aimless appearance and entrance into the consciousness before one who recognizes the arbitrary realm […]

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Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Explosions of Reality, Containers of Fantasy

Posted onDecember 19, 2014December 31, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It is often the converse; as reality is that which constitutes the universe of the knowable, it is that which is contained and determinably set within the parameters of perception; likewise, we normally consider fantasy as that which cannot be contained, and therefore is unstable and likened to a detonated delinquency of diverted desires. But in limited situations, of lost hope, where youth and the vigor of expectations yet unfulfilled, and anticipated future strivings are cut short by the tragedy of circumstances unexpected and of sudden termination unrealized, it is the very disintegration and deterioration of reality which constitutes the tragedy, and its mirror image of dreams unfulfilled. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: Present Perfect Future Tense

Posted onDecember 10, 2014December 25, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Grammar is something we simply survive; it is rarely a career choice, and even less likely anything but a distant memory of distasteful dissonance. But the ability to convey thoughts and conceptual constructs remains a necessity throughout one’s life; and when a present circumstance calls for it, the capacity to plan for the future, while imperfect in any endeavor, must by dictates of life be embraced, in whatever tense of timeless warp by which we discover ourselves. […]

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