homey-home.
got a lovely wooden table and three chairs today. Rearranging the apartment took about an hour of fiddling. I think I have a layout that’s to my liking, now.
factoid o’ de day
I found a painting by Hieronymus Bosch that features trepanation.
The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness), c. 1480
“Removing “stones” from the head was a fairly common medieval operation; however, Bosch has painted a flower as the object being removed. The flower is a tulip which, in the Netherlands is a metaphor for being mad. It is common for someone in a mad (crazy) state to be called a “tulip head.”
