"australia, canada, europe, we are now witnessing mega fires across the world." ominous music plays panting the day i came out of hospital was probably the best day of my life when you do think that maybe you won't be able to walk or talk again and then suddenly you can, you can't not rethink things i'm not saying after my stroke suddenly i was thinking big picture, but if you were to look at my publication record until the stroke i was focused entirely on the detailed interactions of species in the soil.