Beginnings and Endings

 For the last two weeks, here in our condo above False Creek in Vancouver, we've watched the large parking lot twelve stories below fill up with long-haul trucks, massive white tents, and then workers who assembled rows of tables, put up and taken down, with crews cooking, and a fleet of pickups and cabs and limousines coming and going.We didn't know what was happening until on one of our walks,