This is an incredible story of perseverance and the reward of hard work. Please take a minute to read it. An anthropologist decides to document all of the worlds dances of all the worlds indigenous peoples. He and his team spend years traveling the globe recording each of the worlds unique dances. One fateful evening while dining another patron over hears him describing his life’s work. The patron says “You must travel to the remotest part of the Australian outback and record the Putcher dance performed by only one isolated group of indigenous peoples”. The anthropologist is intrigued and after some research they travel to the Australian out back to find this obscure group. The anthropologist approaches the tribal leader, he describes his work to document the worlds dances and asks if he can record the “Putcher Dance”. The tribal leader is excited “Yes we would be honored for you to record the Putcher dance but we only perform it once a year and we did it just yesterday, you will have to come back next year a day earlier”. The anthropologist is deflated but agrees. A year later the anthropologist arrives with his team and finds the tribal leader “I am here for the Putcher dance am I in time?” And the tribal leader says “oh yes we are excited to have you we are just about to begin”. The anthropologist and his team set up their cameras and recording equipment. Finally the last of all the worlds dances will have been recorded and the lifetime project will be complete. The people of the village gather in a huge circle. The cameras are rolling. The tribal leader steps to the center of the circle and raises his hands, gives a confidant nod to the cameras and he begins “You Putcher left foot in, you Putcher left foot out, you Putcher left foot in and you shake it all about.....”
-------------------- "Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; this is good luck."
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