Stadium of Angels
Many years ago, not sure if it was late 80s or early 90s, I had a vision that would later find its way back to me in the most amazing way. At the time I lived in Massachusetts and my two brothers had joined me there over the course of roughly 5 years time. We would often travel back to the upstate region of New York, traveling through Albany, through Little Falls, and on to Herkimer, as well as other towns in the region.
On several occasions, as we traveled west on route 5 through Little Falls, I mentioned to my brothers (whichever ones were with me) that on the west-most edge of Little Falls I had a vision of a very unique stadium for sporting events and concerts. What made this stadium unique was that I saw it being built overtop of route 5 from the hills on the north, spanning the road to the lower field to the south. The fields ran along the West Canada Creek and provided a beautiful setting for additional venues such as scenic restaurants along the water.
This stadium was to be the only one in existence, built in such a manner and people would come from all over to visit the stadium and attend the events held there, parking in the south side parking areas. They would get the thrill of sitting above an active roadway while watching the game or concert as it took place below.
They would kid me about it; ask me "what are you gonna do, build it", etc. And my reply would generally be that I envisioned that someday this stadium would be built, but at the time it was as if it already existed, and we would continue on to Herkimer.
Well this passed with time and the trips stopped and the vision faded, as most visions do.
In 1994 I met Tracy Lee on-line in AOL when I became CEO of an on-line company called the Virtual Office Complex, which never really took off. However the relationship between Tracy and I did, and we began planning how we might someday meet. I would often say that I could envision angels coming into a stadium at night, filling in the open seats, though they remained standing, with each carrying a lit candle.
It was my view that they were coming into the stadium to pray for us, that we would have the opportunity to some day meet. This vision grew stronger as the days passed, and more and more angels flooded the stadium until is shown like a bright star that could be seen from the heavens.
We did meet, in a story that is too long to tell with this one, and I ended up moving to Hawthorne, NY to live with Tracy Lee and her two children Keith and Chelsea. One day, a month or so after I moved in, we were out for a walk, and I told her the story of the crazy vision I had during my travels through Little Falls with my brothers. She looked at me as if she had seen an angel standing behind me.
I asked her what was wrong and she proceeded to tell me a story that occurred around the same time as my vision story. It was during a trip with her previous husband and Keith and Chelsea as they were returning back from Lake George, north of Albany. As they reached the NY Thruway, Tracy said that she wanted to go west to a small city called Little Falls. When asked "why go there?" she said because she wanted to bring her husband and her son to a baseball stadium that was the most unique stadium anyone has ever built. They were baseball fans and she thought they would be excited.
Laughter filled the car, because they knew there wasn't a stadium in Little Falls and they were as serious as Tracy Lee was in her thinking that there was one. She won the argument and they went west on the Thruway to the obscure city of Little Falls. Tracy spent an hour driving all over the city looking feverously for this unique, famous stadium, but to no avail. There was no stadium and there was only laughter greeting her on the long drive home to Hawthorne.
This story was confirmed by Keith when we finished out walk, who remembered it like it was yesterday. "We thought she was crazy, looking for a stadium in Little Falls."
Was there a stadium or was it a vision shared by only two people who would one day meet. Crazier things have happened, but this one happened to us - invoked by something supernatural. Maybe the angels were beginning to fill in this unique stadium long before I saw them. Just maybe.
On several occasions, as we traveled west on route 5 through Little Falls, I mentioned to my brothers (whichever ones were with me) that on the west-most edge of Little Falls I had a vision of a very unique stadium for sporting events and concerts. What made this stadium unique was that I saw it being built overtop of route 5 from the hills on the north, spanning the road to the lower field to the south. The fields ran along the West Canada Creek and provided a beautiful setting for additional venues such as scenic restaurants along the water.
This stadium was to be the only one in existence, built in such a manner and people would come from all over to visit the stadium and attend the events held there, parking in the south side parking areas. They would get the thrill of sitting above an active roadway while watching the game or concert as it took place below.
They would kid me about it; ask me "what are you gonna do, build it", etc. And my reply would generally be that I envisioned that someday this stadium would be built, but at the time it was as if it already existed, and we would continue on to Herkimer.
Well this passed with time and the trips stopped and the vision faded, as most visions do.
In 1994 I met Tracy Lee on-line in AOL when I became CEO of an on-line company called the Virtual Office Complex, which never really took off. However the relationship between Tracy and I did, and we began planning how we might someday meet. I would often say that I could envision angels coming into a stadium at night, filling in the open seats, though they remained standing, with each carrying a lit candle.
It was my view that they were coming into the stadium to pray for us, that we would have the opportunity to some day meet. This vision grew stronger as the days passed, and more and more angels flooded the stadium until is shown like a bright star that could be seen from the heavens.
We did meet, in a story that is too long to tell with this one, and I ended up moving to Hawthorne, NY to live with Tracy Lee and her two children Keith and Chelsea. One day, a month or so after I moved in, we were out for a walk, and I told her the story of the crazy vision I had during my travels through Little Falls with my brothers. She looked at me as if she had seen an angel standing behind me.
I asked her what was wrong and she proceeded to tell me a story that occurred around the same time as my vision story. It was during a trip with her previous husband and Keith and Chelsea as they were returning back from Lake George, north of Albany. As they reached the NY Thruway, Tracy said that she wanted to go west to a small city called Little Falls. When asked "why go there?" she said because she wanted to bring her husband and her son to a baseball stadium that was the most unique stadium anyone has ever built. They were baseball fans and she thought they would be excited.
Laughter filled the car, because they knew there wasn't a stadium in Little Falls and they were as serious as Tracy Lee was in her thinking that there was one. She won the argument and they went west on the Thruway to the obscure city of Little Falls. Tracy spent an hour driving all over the city looking feverously for this unique, famous stadium, but to no avail. There was no stadium and there was only laughter greeting her on the long drive home to Hawthorne.
This story was confirmed by Keith when we finished out walk, who remembered it like it was yesterday. "We thought she was crazy, looking for a stadium in Little Falls."
Was there a stadium or was it a vision shared by only two people who would one day meet. Crazier things have happened, but this one happened to us - invoked by something supernatural. Maybe the angels were beginning to fill in this unique stadium long before I saw them. Just maybe.
posted by Brion Carroll | 9:49 AM
1 Comments:
This is really nice. I'm glad to see you're writing. I didn't know about this page until Jeff's response.
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