Hey, welcome! Grab a seat, I’m so grateful you are here.

Here is The Analogue Edit. I created this because I was done with rushing through my own life. Growing older (but trying not to grow up!) and realising I only get to do this ride once.

I became tired of documenting everything but feeling very little inside. Tired of consuming endlessly and remembering almost nothing. Tired of the quiet pressure no one acknowledges to keep up, upgrade or optimise, even perform. I was finding this even in supposedly slow spaces.

This place is not that place though. This is a place for truly stepping back.

The Analogue Edit is about noticing the beauty in ordinary days, choosing meaning over momentum, and finding small ways to live more deliberately in a very loud world. It is allowing nostalgia and remembering the peace that comes with analogue moments- photographs you can hold, rituals you repeat, objects you keep, places that matter- and the stories attached to them.

Here you’ll find reflective essays, slow reviews of days out and places worth lingering in, thoughts on moments, ritual and modern life, and gentle observations from the middle of life. Nothing here is polished or performative. It is lived-in.

I’m Dani - a writer, a mother, a wife and someone learning how to live with purpose. This project grew out of that learning: choosing depth over noise and attention over urgency.

If you are craving a slower rhythm and a kick back to simpler choices, stay as long as you like. You are always welcome.