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Federal Employees with Disabilities: Simplifying the Complex

July 24, 2019

Genius is to comprehend the complex; competence is to utilize it; adequacy is to merely get by with it; to be lost is to become mired in it. The world is complex. Balance in a life is complex. Trying to survive in a complex world requires a balancing act that even the most skilled tightrope acrobat can barely accomplish. Once, when a reporter asked a mountain climber who had successfully scaled the North Face of the Eiger “why” he does what he did, the reply was: […]

Applying for FERS Disability Retirement Benefits: Balance

July 15, 2019

It is what we want to maintain, whether on a tightrope, a ledge high above in an apartment complex, or just walking from the living room to the kitchen. For, without it, the silent agreement we have made with the objective world would suddenly topple, and we would be lying horizontally and seeing the world from the ground up, as opposed to the vertical manner in which we ambulate, and observing the world from above. […]

OPM Disability Retirement under FERS: Future Robbing Present

July 2, 2019

How much time do we spend worrying about the future? In this concerning age, where debts keep rising, expenses keep increasing, wages remain stagnant and instability around the world continues as a reality we are all faced with — the amount of time spent in anxious anticipation of a future not yet established is a reality which we all must constrain. […]

FERS Disability Retirement Benefits: Out of Love

June 11, 2019

There can be a duality of meanings, of course — of doing X “out of love” or “being” out of love. The two are opposites, or of conceptual antonyms. What does it mean to act “out of love” — in the first sense of the phrase? Does being compensated for doing something necessarily and immediately cancel any notion that one is doing it with the pure motive “out of love”? […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The developing case

May 16, 2019

Some things need time to develop; “news stories” are often those animals — of events that are “still developing”; or of relationships and stories, ideas and categories of things still in stages yet of potentiality and not of actualized inertia. Children develop; medical conditions, as well, are always in stages of potentiality — whether of a worsening condition or even of getting better. […]

Federal OPM Disability Retirement: Hope for tomorrow

November 20, 2018

“Tomorrow”, as a word written today, pointing to a dimension beyond; to a vantage and perspective not yet realized, and forever to be referenced by a future date yet unknown. When read tomorrow, it leads to the next day; and when looked upon the next day, to the following day again; and in this eternal sequence of tomorrows, whether written today, tomorrow or the next day, it forever reminds us that hope lies not in the morass of today’s problems, […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Inconsistency and specificity

October 23, 2018

The two legal standards dominant in a Federal Employee Disability Retirement case must often be alternatively applied depending upon the nature of the positional duties involved. It may be appropriate to speak in terms of “functional capacities” and specified duty restrictions when it comes to physical work that involves descriptive mechanical work […]

Federal Employee Disability Information: Accuracy

May 19, 2018

How important is accuracy? The converse of such a query, of course, is: Is inaccuracy significant? One would immediately posit: It all depends. Take the following 2 hypotheticals: An archeological dig is conducted, and it is believed that the site of the ruins is of relevant importance concerning a time-period of “recent” history — say, during the American Revolution. […]

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: The misplaced comma

April 17, 2018

It is such an inconsequential mark in the universe of imprints that pervade, and yet so significant, but in a cloak of anonymity, when misplaced. It possesses the same features as other punctuations of grammar — identical to the apostrophe, the same in mimicking as the singular quotation mark that is so prevalent; and the same shape is used in multiple diacritic writing systems common within Ancient Greek writing systems, […]

Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Reference points

December 13, 2017

They are the connections by which a society maintains a fabric of commonality, whether by myths, narrations of stories handed down, religious knowledge or books and movies. It used to be that the “Good Book” was the mainstay of the reference points, so that when a person referred to having “eaten the apple”, for a simple example, one immediately knew that the reference points between a sin committed […]