Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Miracles

Desiree and I have been watching a series called The Surgeon’s Cut. The series documents brilliant surgeons on the leading edge of skill and technology in whatever their chosen specialty may be. Honestly, these are people performing miracles.

Watching one of these surgeons perform life-or-death surgery on a baby still inside the womb, with exactly no room for error, I thought about the way I have remodeled various rooms around the house. All the miscalculations. Boards cut too short. Nails and screws missing the mark. Long pauses, staring at the wall, trying to figure out what comes next.

You should feel profoundly grateful I’m not your surgeon.

—Mitchell Hegman

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