Thursday

 

Shams said he was lonely when I texted "sick" and didn't show up for our online meditation yesterday. 

I asked him if he'd been to Neyshabur, and he hasn't been but Sepehr had. Amir was also there, I had all 3 guy meditating. Amir left after 10 minutes, Shams laid down after 20 and disappeared at 35, and Sepehr stuck it out to the end. I asked him if he knew the name of the mountain ranges between Neyshabur and Mashhad. Mashhad seems close, but the mountains make it a longer journey, and while Rumi was in Neyshabur, I'm don't think he had to go through Mashhad to get there. (Rumi's Secret, by Brad Gooch 2017 is my source)

He didn't know, but google knows, they're the Binalud Mountains. 

Excerpts from Wikipedia:

Binalud mountain range that runs in a northwest-southeast direction between the Nishapur and Mashhad regions in Razavi Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran, to the southeast of the Caspian Sea. Although far from the Aladagh Mountains, which lie to the northwest in the Province of North Khorasan, the Binalud Mountains are located in such a way that both the Aladagh Mountains and the Binalud Range lie approximately in the same arc, curving from the northwest to the southeast.

Situated somewhat to the west of the Binalud Range proper, and with an elevation of 3,211 metres, Mount Binalud is the highest point both of the Binalud Mountains and of Razavi Khorasan Province as a whole.

The mountain range was formed mainly in the Miocene and the Pliocene during the Alpine orogeny and is made predominantly of Triassic and Jurassic rocks, with chiefly Jurassic rocks in the northwestern part and a smaller portion of Paleozoic rocks in the western section. On the southern margin of the range and along the same northwest-southeast direction, there is a strip of Eocene rocks. On the northwestern side of this strip, there is another section of Eocene rocks that are volcanic in origin.[2] The well-known Nishabur turquoise comes from the weathered and broken trachytes and andesites of the Eocene volcanic rocks of this part of the mountain range. The main turquoise mines are situated about 50 kilometres northwest of the city of Nishapur in the vicinity of a village called Madan.

The mountains form part of the faulting resulting from the collision of the Arabian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. The range takes up the motion of Central Iran on the Arabian plate at the rate of 4.0 ± 1.3 mm (0.157 ± 0.051 in) per year.

I've never heard the phrase "Iranian Nose". Guardian.