Why this word is great
KINKEEPING — [Noun] The labor involved in maintaining and strengthening familial ties, including organizing social occasions and facilitating communication. From kin ("family, relatives") + keeping ("maintenance, preservation"), coined by sociologist Carolyn Rosenthal in 1985. Unlike "kinship" (which describes the passive fact of relation) or "networking" (which prioritizes strategic connection), kinkeeping is the quiet, relentless work of emotional infrastructure—the Sunday phone calls that stitch generations together, the holiday dinners planned months in advance, the careful mediation of old grudges before reunions. It is the unseen glue holding families intact, the labor that goes unnoticed until it stops, and the proof that love is often less a feeling than a series of small, deliberate acts.