Germany ... Never thought it would come to mean so much to me!

Germany....what can be said? Germany is so much more then a geography, nature, history, art, culture and people. All of this together gave me a real sense of what a old world country was really like as compared to  "the new world" a "young country". These descriptions of Canada and The USA were  by the way, what I had been taught in school we were!  However visiting and the opportunity to live within a family setting gave me a real perspective that proved to not only be amazing but I think life changing!  
There were hidden jewels in Germany... for me a treasure I did not expect. :)  
What surprised me first was that everything around me seemed familiar and yet new. The oldness of Germany was like seeing a grandparent... you love your grandparent and their oldness because they are a part of you; their past is a part of your past. You feel ... comfortable, in an uncomfortable way!        
 I felt like I could identify with everything and yet I felt separate from it. I had a very definite sense that I was from a young country, a still much undeveloped country, a rugged country, a country with great potential and possibility; everything i saw in Germany was/is developed and re developed, renovated and re renovated. This was so much more then just interesting or admirable it was touching!. Everywhere the past was a welcomed part of the future. Old building were not just old buildings they were an integral part of the present day; to me it was like witnessing the act of loyalty....
 I was pleasantly surprised and sometimes pleasantly perplexed while in Germany. Did I like Germany... yes and yet the word' like" is far too simple an expression. Germany contained for me an experience that I was so surprised to have and yet it was so needed.. My experiences were many, some simple , some complicated, ... some I was amazed at ... some made me weep, some made me laugh ,some made me shout, sometimes I could only whisper or not  even make a sound, some made me grow as a person, some made my heart pound! And of these some were in solitude, some experienced with another/others; I wonder if those experiences were felt in their heart, the same as in mine?
The treasures I discovered were really re discoveries within myself. In Germany I began to write again; poetry and songs were inspires; I began to sketch again and paint, I could walk for hours and hours, jogging in the coolness of the morning was ....awesome,,, something was  revived, something refreshed, ....this something was my heart... and for that Germany will always have a part of my heart. Did I love Germany? Better then that I Loved in Germany!!!!