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Federal Employee Disability Information: Order & Madness

August 24, 2018

In its most basic sense, isn’t that what madness is — of a lack of order, or what society deems to be so? Eccentricity skirts the boundaries of madness; being “odd” is merely a recognition of some forms of eccentricities; and “thinking outside of the box” is to simply do things that people have already thought of, but which we fool ourselves into thinking is something new and creative, because such thought processes are what every conventional thinker thinks […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Ducks out of place

August 8, 2018

Ducks by the pond; out in the fields of wheat and grain; of picturesque paintings of a scene upon the countryside; in parks and near still waters; or on a farm where the pastoral beauty of serenity of times now gone forever, replaced by metal, concrete, the noise of technology and the sniping fire of man’s presence. […]

Lawyer Representation for OPM Disability Retirement: Myopic view

June 29, 2018

One goes through life struggling just to get through each day. Life is hard. Yet, as parents we are scolded into feeling obligated to paint always the positive picture to our children: That you can work hard and achieve anything; that dreams are there to be realized; that life is a bowl of fairytales waiting to be realized. […]

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: By what measure?

July 10, 2017

Does a formula, a paradigm or a standard instill in us the direction we so desire? How is it that we compare X to something, and is the contrast a necessary prerequisite to achieving and accomplishing, or is that some artificial, societal construct that we have manufactured in order to sell ourselves a “bill of goods”? Yes, yes – Western Civilization (remember that middle-school subject taught under the general aegis of that title?) always begins with the philosophical precept of Aristotle’s, of “First Principles” and the “causes” of events and occurrences, but where is it stated that we must have a “measure” by which to compare and contrast? […]

OPM Disability Retirement from Federal Employment: Far-Flung Universes

September 30, 2015

Each generation tells a generic story reflective of the times; and thus did the Great Depression era produce movies and epics with undertones of escapism from the harsh realities of life; of the 60s, the fear of nuclear holocaust and the confrontation of the Cold War; of the following decade revealing the hesitation for technology and its pervasive intrusion into the privacy of our lives; and so on, so the anxiety, fear and loathing goes. […]

OPM Medical Retirement Law Blog: The Mannequin

April 3, 2015

The garment may alter, but the pose remains stilted; and no matter what angle the inertia of fashion may be looked at, the expression remains impassive and impenetrable. Mannequins pose for the public, display the wears without complaint, and fill spaces without disturbances or complaints. They simply “are”. Such an existence — of an uncomplaining coexistence with eyes meant to attract upon the changing appearances intended to detract […]

Medical Retirement from the U.S. Postal Service and Other Federal Government Agencies: The Tincture of Qualia

December 30, 2014

Tinctures only provide a slice of elements which constitute a whole; and while it is the essence of the plant, herb or other matter which is extracted, the substance itself does not represent the entirety of the thing from which it is received. Qualia, in a similar definitional vein, concerns the subjective mental states which one experiences based upon the encounters with the objective universe, but is contained within the parameters of experiential phenomena unique to each individual. Such personal, private experiences do not necessarily constitute or represent the fullness of the individual, […]