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Federal Disability Retirement: Coincidences & wrong attributions

February 18, 2019

Two events occur within a fairly close span of time; we relate them; we attribute one to have caused the other. Was it mere coincidence, and was the causal attribution wrongly implied? We learn from a friend that a certain person X visited the house of person Y. Y was a good friend. X never liked you. A week or so later, you bump into Y and you say, “Hi. Haven’t seen you in a while. How has the family been?” Y looks at you, turns the other way without responding, and coldly walks away. […]

OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: The tangible

May 4, 2018

What are the criteria by which one lives? Is there a singular, dominant principle, as in “A Criterion” or “The Criterion”, or multiple ones; or perhaps an overarching archetype with subsets of mini-components that are all in their aggregate subsumed by a greater Platonic Form, somewhat like “Goodness” that predominates, with subtexts of lesser categories? Or, do we just blunder through life without them and arbitrarily bump into decisions,[…]

Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Unwillingness

February 8, 2018

What is it about a personality that is unwilling? Is it pure obstinacy? Or, perhaps a personality trait of stubbornness that goes against the very nature of a person’s essence? Such traits or quirks of personalities are interesting, precisely because they can fluctuate depending upon the particular context encountered. Take, for example, an important conference where negotiations are occurring […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Little battles fought

September 23, 2017

It is the minor skirmishes of life that maintain the vitality of everyday existence; they are fought in preparation for the greater battles and campaigns. That is why a ‘strategy’ is important; otherwise, taking the same hill countless times in a day leads one to wonder what the greater plan is. For, futility and the sense of meaninglessness are what defeat any motivation to continue. […]

Federal Disability Retirement: The vibrancy factor

October 13, 2016

There is much talk these days about energy, vibrancy, health and stamina; what defines it, that which best represents it, and to whom we attribute the importance of superficial concerns. This is an age of appearances, and it has been now for many decades. We still hear talk about the disjunctive opinions embracing the first televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon – how, for those who viewed it, the former “looked good” and the latter appeared “drawn and shady”, with dark shadows under shifty eyes in contrast to the well-tanned presentation of the former. […]

Disability Retirement from Federal Government Employment: The Well-Digger’s Daughter

July 11, 2016

It is a French film directed by Daniel Auteuil, and depicts an age just before, during, and after the First World War, when rural life still embraced a contempt for modern values, and the pastoral context defined the the quietude of family life yet unblemished but for private shame of family secrets. It is in the title itself which reveals much; for, there is no independence of a person’s name, and the underlying theme throughout encapsulates the right to a surname, the identity of an individual, and how the interconnectedness of one’s essence, being and substantive community is itself defined by the proper ascription of who we are related to, how, and by what legitimacy. […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Pipe Dreams

July 1, 2016

The origin denotes an unsavory history of imperialistic exploitation and deserved degeneration of culturally unseen and unforetold consequences; of an encounter between foreign soils bridged by greed, necessity and inevitable destinies, but where the conqueror reaped more than what it sought. In the opium dens which followed and the devastation of addictions ensuing, the phantoms derived from the processing of a plant which otherwise concealed the deadliness of its essence, beautiful in its floral toxicity amidst the sweet aroma that diffusely pervaded an unsuspecting population — dreams, indeed, of unreachable heights and great expectations otherwise squandered. […]