Hello

The blog that required 50 words beginning with "H" began with the single sentence:
"Hello friends."
I'm going to keep that for today's post, in part so I can devote my few minutes to some thoughts about this exercise.
"Hello darkness my old friend."
The requirement -- which I will hold to -- that each sentence begin with, rather than incorporate the day's word, actually feels more limiting than inspiring. Perhaps it could be both - I'm sure authors of strict poetic forms find pleasure in the stricture only after diligent work.
"Hello, Gorgeous!"
But I'm wondering if my goal here isn't pure play - pure inspiration?
And shouldn't working through these 1,000+ words maintain some element of play?
He-looo??
For the rest of this alphabet cycle, I'll stick with this set of rules. But for the "2nd word cycle" I might just shake things up.
"Hello, opportunity," she whispered in my ear.