Shared stories and surprising sentences

Just picked up Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and based on the first few pages am very much looking forward to reading the whole thing. Many excerpts to follow. Page xi.

There are gracious and inventive ways to enjoy words and to reclaim them as instruments of love, healing and peace. All of us who speak, read, write, and listen to each other have the opportunities to that and to foster the kinds of community that come from shared stories and surprising sentences.