Ang Mata ng Pinatubo

Ang Mata ng Pinatubo (The Eye of Pinatubo)
Standing inside Avatar Canyon, carved by the very forces that once brought this land to its knees, you look upward and the jungle looks back. Ferns push through every crack. Trees reach toward a perfect square of blue sky with the confidence of something that was never truly defeated. The darkness of the earth surrounds you, ancient and heavy, and yet above, life has won so completely that you would never know the destruction that once stood here.
This is what humility feels like. Not the smallness of a person standing before something great, but the quiet understanding that the earth does not need us to recover. It simply does. On its own terms, in its own time, with a patience that outlasts everything.
The eye of Pinatubo is open. And it is watching something grow.