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Federal Disability Retirement: Constellation of our lives

May 7, 2019

Of what do we owe to the constellation above; and of their placement, do we wonder whether our lives are impacted therefrom? The order of the universe — of the date and time when we were born; of a day’s happenstance, of luck or coincidence; do we wonder, or is Darwin the god to whom we bow out conscious lives, forever pursued by the genetic code within but never by the stars beyond? Shakespeare, of course, made multiple references to the constellation of our lives, as in Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2: […]

Filing for OPM Disability Retirement: Goals of abstract purity

April 24, 2019

Idealism allows for the plethora of such concepts; cynicism born of age and experience quells the exuberance of such vaunted beginnings. When we were young — no, not the opening lines of a Christopher Robin poem where the hunt for a clove of honey is the day’s goal, but an observation about life’s folly — we harbored principles and moral codes that required strict purity: Success without compromise; […]

OPM Medical Retirement: Hovering nostalgia

March 30, 2019

The image connotes a sense of lightness of being; for, to “hover” is to have that levitation of weightlessness, and it is in the moment of nostalgic interlude that we experience the concurrent sensation of becoming lost in the memories of forsaken pasts. Nostalgia is to Man what icing is to a cake; without it, we live in the reality of dreaded days where the future is merely a repetition of Sisyphus’ burden […]

FERS Disability Retirement: The formulation

January 25, 2019

There is, first, the preparation; then, the formulation; and finally, the filing and the waiting. Are the sequence of steps necessarily separate and identifiable — cleanly bifurcated such that there is no overlapping of concerns? Of course not; but the three elements in a OPM Disability Retirement application are necessary for the successful outcome of the endeavor. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Foreboding Sense

December 1, 2018

Are such “feelings” valid? Does it even make any sense to apply the criteria of validity to a “feeling”, or are there circumstances where a foreboding sense of things can be accepted as a confirmed truth? Does an outcome-based application of the criteria determine the validity of a feeling? […]

OPM Medical Retirement Benefits: Confused confusion

November 14, 2018

Why confuse the confused? Why confuse further the confusion that already confused even the least of the confused? Why add to the confusion when the confused are confused enough as it is, and when confusion should be relieved by less confusion instead of confusing everyone further by adding to the confusion? […]

Lawyer Representation for OPM Disability Retirement: Trapped

October 12, 2018

Desperation is born of it; escape routes relieve the sense of it; and in the end, it is a belief in the hope that there are alternatives which provides a release from it. The wild animal that is trapped will do everything to escape, including acts of self-harm if there is no alternative presented. Whether of higher intelligence or some lesser level, the sense or “feeling” of being trapped leads to a suffocating belief of hopelessness. […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The last Edwardian

September 29, 2018

What does it mean to be an “Edwardian”? The reign of Edward VII was brief, but its influence is often extended to periods both before and long after in an aggregation of understanding “trends” that were noted, and often idealized. It is a period of little interest to most Americans, except perhaps when there is some vague reference during a period of a royal scandal or a royal wedding […]

Lawyer Representation for OPM Disability Claims: The Crafted Statement

September 3, 2018

The crafted statement is the one which is thoughtfully delineated, carefully constructed and put forth with logical force of persuasive content. It is not the one written in a panic of time-constraints, nor the one rushed with the background admonition screaming in one’s mind that it “must be finished!” […]

Federal Disability Retirement Claims: Of fortunes unattained

August 15, 2018

Here, of the story untold: “He woke up and went into the bathroom, and there found an old man staring at him. There was no voice that called; no utterance of a salutation so early in the morning. The corrugated skin of this stranger was pulled back, revealing deep cuts in the rivulets of age where time had taken its toll. His hair was unkempt; thinning and grey, with speckles of white reaching deep within the roots of timeless agony. […]