Whenever a colleague passes away what seems to be relevant as far as information is concerned are dates and eventually a fairly brief academical curriculum. There seems to be no reference to one's personality traits or whatever might have made such and such a person unique in the working environment (or even beyond it).
Cadete has passed away today and his uniqueness as a sensitive person ought to be mentioned, because even if many of us didn't know that apart from being an engineer he was involved in Reiki and other spiritual forms of approach to daily life, or that he loved photography, one certainly remembers the huge number of photos he took of those who participated in the annual trip organised by the enterprise (Madeira 2010).
Among the numerous photos of colleagues, he took some time to photograph flowers, insects, expressions, details ... etc. and that's what I believe Cadete was about ... details ... and more details, those details that may (or may not) make a difference in people's lives but definitely made him a "different" person, this being the reason as to why I called upon him to photograph some of the children's classes during the Summer, whenever João de Barros couldn't.
As I was looking at the black and white version of the photograph that stands on its left it came to my mind how unexpectedly fading takes over what was colourful just seconds (or years) before. Embolism has taken him the same way it took my eldest daughter ... I know well what untimely death is about ... and what it can do to those who have stayed behind ...
May some of his now posted photos (taken by him back in 2010) shed some light into whatever beauty some colleagues failed to see (in him) ... and may he rest in peace ...
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