Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
Whether of a book, a secret or a personal relationship, there is always that moment of opening. The pause of anticipation before the reading of the first word of a novel announced to be a masterpiece of literary discourse; or of a secret, long lost and hidden in the family closet, now to be revealed where eyes and ears pierce […]
The phrase can have multiple meanings, depending upon the emphasis given to the words. On the one hand, it can imply an affirmative, active meaning — of some individual or organization implementing steps in order to alter the course of another’s life. In this sense, it may be that a problem has been identified […]
Is it the memory that retains importance, or the fear that erasure leads to irrelevance that motivates us to prevent forgotten lives? Does imprint upon history — whether in a footnote or an “honorable mention” in the epitaph of an unvisited tombstone — mean so much? Does a reference in a Wikipedia listing count as a counter to a life lived in anonymity? […]