Stockings for Seniors in Memory of Harry Bodkin

12/24/2025

Thank you everyone the seniors loved their stockings !!!!

12/21/2025

Stockings are filled and ready to go! Nathan and I thank you for all your support. Pictures to come later this week.

10/27/2025

12/26/2024

Would love to share some wonderful news that we unexpectedly received today, a real "Christmas miracle." Someone or some other organization took our place today, Christmas day, and delivered stockings to the seniors living at Wesley Enhanced Living on Roosevelt Blvd. in Philly!

We were so upset that we couldn't do it this year and now equally overjoyed that the tradition lives on in our absence. Merry Christmas to all!🎅🎁❤️

12/09/2024

Due to health issues and finances, we are unable to do the Stocking project in 2024. Hopefully we can resume in 2025. Thanks to everyone who reached out to inquire. All the best!

12/17/2023

I want to sincerely thank everyone who helped us get to 70% of our goal for the Stockings for Seniors in Memory of Harry Bodkin project started long ago by Jeri Bodkin Morse's dad, Harry Bodkin. Just got back home after building and filling 170 stockings at Wesley Enhanced Living in Philadelphia.
I've included some pictures below of part of today's work and the irreplaceable help we received from our grandson Nathan, his friends and our friend Carleen Cirigliano Silva . We love you all!
You can still help us get closer to our goal if you would like to feel some Christmas cheer. Thanks to all now and in advance and Merry Christmas
https://gofund.me/79215f4f

12/09/2023

I am so blown away by the generosity of family, friends and loving people. We've raised about 60% of what we were aiming for in five short days. Thank you all so much! We are living amidst an astounding amount of candy, pens, pads, cookies and tomorrow we're going out to buy much more.

If you are interested in helping us to keep the light alive for many seniors, here is the link again for the fundraiser.

You are making my belief in miracles grow ever stronger. Thanks!

I am posting this exactly three weeks before Christmas. Is time short? I would … Rich Perrotti needs your support for Harry Bodkin Stockings for Seniors 2023

12/05/2023

Three weeks before Christmas to the day. Time is so short but we are determined to still create and deliver 180 stockings to seniors in assisted living and health care in Philadelphia.
If you can find it in your heart, please click the link below and share with us what you can for this wonderful project. As years go by, I think we all understand and feel what it means to be remembered during the holidays.
Thank you all for your consideration. May the holidays bring peace and joy to you and yours!

I am posting this exactly three weeks before Christmas. Is time short? I would … Rich Perrotti needs your support for Harry Bodkin Stockings for Seniors 2023

01/01/2022

On this first day of a New Year, I want to thank all who have helped us with contributions to our GoFundMe page. Your love and generosity has helped us so much and we can't thank you enough as we begin to pay off this year's labor of love.

To date, we sit at 55% of our goal. If you wish to donate or share this with your connections, here is the link:

https://gofund.me/99900825

As a fond remembrance, I offer you a link to my Christmas poem of ten years ago when I was inspired by the efforts of the man who began this in love and humility. Even in difficult times such as these, I truly believe his heart guides us from a higher perspective.

https://amazedamused.blogspot.com/2012/01/34-years-of-christmas-poems-christmas_4681.html

We have come to the end of the road, the sleigh parked in the proverbial shed. This is the poem that finishes up the thirty-four year ru...

12/30/2021

https://gofund.me/99900825

I believe...

I believe that in lighting a single candle, darkness disappears...

I believe that angels are always beside us and assist in ways that cannot be explained, simply accepted and appreciated...

I believe that simple, everyday things can radiate great beauty and bring light into our lives...

I believe that one man's dream of a nicer world and a better Christmas for everyone regardless of age and health is still vital and alive...

I believe that a simple Christmas stocking can be and in fact, is so much more than what it is made out of.

It is love exemplified. And love that we give away comes back to us tenfold and more.

And couldn't we all accept a little (or lot) more love into our lives?

Thank you for your support. Please feel free to share this.

Love and the best of times for you and yours.

-Rich and Jeri

12/28/2021

It is never easy to keep a fundraiser going after the fact. The stockings that brought joy to so many seniors last week now sit empty, just a happy memory of the holiday season. Despite all of the difficulties life pitched at us (including a significant delay in getting the fundraiser up and going), I am very happy that we did it.

We still sit at 38% of our goal and everything that we don't raise we'll have funded out of pocket.

If you can find it in your heart and your budget, please help us to pay off this year's project and prepare for yet another.

https://gofund.me/99900825

Happy New Year. May it be so much better for you and yours.

12/26/2021

Soon the lights will dim and the snows will come. What warms my heart is that we helped to put a smile on the faces of many elderly souls who might have been forgotten this Christmas season.

We still sit at 38% of our goal, money that was spent to fund this miracle of joy and love.

If you can find it in your heart and your budget, please help us to pay off this year's project and prepare for yet another.

https://gofund.me/99900825

Much love to you and yours. Peace.