You are holding a book that doesn’t want to hurry you. A book that believes wisdom lives in tender, unglamorous places―in handwritten recipes, lingering goodbyes, crocheted blankets and silences that speak louder than words.
Written over six years and across many countries, At the Speed of Flowers is a collection of essays that invites you to notice the life happening at the edges of your attention. With the intimacy of a friend and the clarity of a teacher, Deepak Ramola leads you through stories and small, sturdy truths that unfold one memory, one encounter, one love note at a time. Deeply human and hopeful, this book is about learning to bloom in your own season.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deepak Ramola is probably on a long walk somewhere, humming a folk melody. He recently learnt how to drive and how to swim. What he has known for much longer is that he loves potatoes, people and possibilities, roughly in that order.
As a wisdom historian and award-winning educator, Deepak has spent seventeen years gathering life lessons from everyday people across 195 countries through his organization Project FUEL. That same curiosity carries him into the classroom―as faculty and a Life Design Fellow at Stanford University and co-instructor of the Meaning of Life course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP, he is the author of three books spanning poetry, self-help and narrative non-fiction. He was a 2024 finalist for the Yuva Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry collection Karwan Ka Shauq Hai.
