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Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Suburban Sketches
Within the past 2 weeks: a rabbit’s nest is discovered in the back yard; then, in the early morning dawn of the next morning, that same discovery is met with a predator whose presence is feared only...
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Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Danger of Forecasting
The accuracy of forecasting a future event is based upon the validity of present facts and information, and generated within a program of patterns relying upon past models. But as present...
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Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: An Altered Life of Habituation
Loss of stature and status can come in many forms; we think too often in terms of financial status, of material belongings, where we live, with whom we associate, and the subtle evaluation of social...
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Repairs
NASA astronauts train to repair their own complex instruments in space It is to fix or mend, often applying to inanimate objects in attempting to return it to a state of existence prior to damage or...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Problem of the Lowest Common Denominator
What is wrong with going to the essence of the matter, skipping the process, and reducing everything to its lowest common denominator? Doesn’t efficiency demand such an approach? Isn’t the most...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Escaping the Feudal Paradigm
Anachronisms rarely die a sudden death; instead, they fade over time, with vestiges and residual skeletons of facades and structures remaining stubbornly in place for decades, and sometimes centuries....
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Unchosen
It is a term and concept which denotes a negation of what once was; like an unfinished paragraph or a torn page in a novel, the act of undermining and incompleteness is implied; and so the reader will...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Life at the Apex
Life is on a spectrum variable; instead, we tend to view it as a linear progression, as one from birth to youth, middle to old age; death as the ultimate outcome. The content of life is therefore...
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Reflections on Federal Disability Retirement this Independence Weekend
Each country has a symbolic date for celebrating independence; that historic marker which represents the freeing of a populace from the chains of tyranny. Some may view it as an anachronism, and in...
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The Ritualistic Void Found in Postal and Federal Employees Who Continue...
It is precisely the repetitive identity which provides for comfort. Thinking is an endeavor which requires effort; ritualistic actions require merely attendance and presence, and the mechanical...
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OPM Medical Retirement Law: The Time In-Between, Afterwards
That time, as a historical event, is quite different from the retrospective vantage point of what we perceive today; and that is good to keep in mind. After the event itself, the followers were not...
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Medical Pension from Federal Government Employment: Pulse of the heart, eyes...
Lin Yutang is a preeminently accomplished writer of the last century who wrote incisive essays and works describing the great divide between China and the monolithic aggregate collectively referred to...
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Federal Employee Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS: Junkyards
It is the latter in the compound word which is left forgotten and unnoticed, precisely because of the screaming blare represented by the former, demanding attention by the sheer nature and character of...
View ArticleLegal Representation on FERS/CSRS Disability Claims: What isn’t known
There is often that final question during a consultation — of “any other advice” that can be given, or whether something else was forgotten, or the generalization of “Anything else I should know?”...
View ArticleFederal & Postal Disability Retirement from OPM: Purposive sequence
Are all things in a sequence “purposive”? If you are walking in the countryside and come upon a horse, a man and a pig, in that order, was there any “purposive” meaning in the sequence met, or was it...
View ArticleFederal & Postal Disability Retirement: Weight of evidence
When you walk into a room full of people, how does one differentiate, define, separate and discern? Remember that once-popular fictional work entitled, Tarzan of the Apes by (originally) Edgar Rice...
View ArticleHelp with Disability Retirement from Federal Agency or USPS: Cancel Culture
In modernity, it refers to the cultural attempt to silence a particular historical perspective, or to expunge certain elements deemed offensive or otherwise inflammatory. The criticism, of course, is...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement under FERS: The Bellwether
It is the leading sheep of the flock, graced with a bell on its neck in order to establish its role for the others; or, in more colloquial parlance, the predictor or indicator of something. Thus, a red...
View ArticleFERS Medical Retirement from OPM: Objectivity
In the West, the traditional approach is to be far removed and dispassionate in attempting to attain that level of acceptable discernment. If there is even a whiff of personal involvement, a suspicion...
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