ABSTRACT
Halcyon Days – the words come from a rich collision of myth, legend and fable which recall the sailor’s story of the kingfisher incubating its eggs at sea for the seven days before and the seven after the winter solstice, when the sea was always calm. Thousands of years of ‘empirical research’ in almost every corner of the earth, has provided with an extraordinary bank of knowledge about nature; cultural evolution in parallel has borne diverse value systems. Common Ground was founded on the belief that our relations with nature and the land are fundamental to our short and long term wellbeing. Common Ground has coined the concept of local distinctiveness and offered it as an open work for others to explore. The walk is intended to reinvest places with meaning, and build bridges between different factions in the community as a basis for celebrating and caring for locality.
