Alta Mesa Center for the Arts

AMCA is an interfaith arts and spirituality hub, housed within and sponsored by Orinda Community Church. Art is a spiritual act, and a human right.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from

“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”

“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”

“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”

“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”

“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”

“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

[Alta Mesa Center for the Arts @altamesacenter]

@MichelleObama @AkunyiliCrosby 😍

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

A rainbow appeared near the Kennedy Center as a crowd waited for Donald Trump’s name to be removed.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
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[11Point7 College Baseball @11point7]

THE SAINT MARY'S GAELS WALK IT OFF. ADVANCE TO REGIONAL FINAL FOR FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY 🔥🔥🔥

#1 NATIONAL SEED UCLA IS ELIMINATED

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

A clear, well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio... worth watching

[Carla ❁ @shannonlada]

Se entregaron los Children's and Family Emmy Awards 2026.

Y premiaron el especial 'Andrew Garfield and Elmo Explain Grief' como el mejor programa de cortos live-action.

Ay, mi corazón 🥹❤️

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Hillary Clinton was asked: “Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this committee?"

Her answer is amazing!

[La Guarida del Titán @GuaridaTitan]

sigo alucinando con este monólogo que Sir Ian McKellen se marca en el show de Stephen Colbert… pero es que encima la anécdota del principio es alucinante.

menudo regalazo se llevó el público en directo. Teatro en estado puro.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE: Legendary New Orleans clarinetist Doreen Ketchens serenades her grandson with a beautiful jazz tune 🥹❤️

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Frederick Douglass?

Republican: I am

Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Republican: Yes

Talarico: Yet this bill still includes the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even an American. Could that be because he's a white man?

Republican: N-not exactly…

[Allie Larkin @AllieLarkin]

I loved getting to talk with Linda Lenhoff for @baynewsmatters I hope you'll give this a read! It also has details about the pub day outdoor literary luncheon on May 6th with @ReginaMarler and Renee Swindle hosted by @TowneCenterBks https://t.co/vhHjEEkcKx

[Lasallian Region of North America (RELAN) @Lasallian_RELAN]

ICYMI: In October, Mary Volmer, mission fellow for athletics at @stmarysca, examined the ways in which a pedagogy of fraternity animates a Lasallian spirituality of sport. Recording ➡️ https://t.co/MIPawFK5EF

[Alta Mesa Center for the Arts @altamesacenter]

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has rejected the Trump Administration’s offer of federal funding in exchange for aligning with Trump’s agenda. This is the first university to do so.

RETWEET to thank MIT President Sally Kornbluth for standing up to Trump!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.

#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Republicans control every branch in Washington.

Now, Trump is openly giddy about using the shutdown to slash and burn federal resources that working Americans count on.

His shutdown, and firings, will hurt people in every part of this country.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

[Alta Mesa Center for the Arts @altamesacenter]

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