Chiral dynamics is a pretty mature field. Nonetheless, there are many exciting new
developments. In this opening talk, I consider S-wave, isospin-zero pion-pion scattering and
the calculation of the width of the lightest baryon resonances at two loops. New insights into
the chiral dynamics of charm-strange mesons are discussed as well as recent results on the
flavor decomposition of the pion-nucleon $\sigma$-term. I end with a short wish-list of lattice
QCD tests pertinent to chiral dynamics.