Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), a Japanese poet of renown and a lay Buddhist priest, is best known for his poems, but he has also left numerous journals. There are more than twenty-thousand haiku to his pen name, which means “cup of tea.” His real name was Nabuyuki. Anyhow, I am catching up with him. At present, there are close to twelve-thousand pieces of writing to my Residua, a journal of sorts, and about a thousand of them are my own haiku. Since eight years ago, an ever-larger proportion of my writings are one-hundred and sixty character poems, which were spawned on my mobile phone. It was originally constrained to this number of characters, and the constraint has stuck with me. By and by, most of my writings may well end up in this neat format. I cannot tell whether I will ever catch up with good old Issa, but the goal is well worth keeping in mind. If silence is beyond me, my haiku comes close enough to it.